The transcripts state that they are based on notes and recollections from people in the room at the time. You can tell because while Trump is portrayed in this as rambling and repetitive, which is his way, you can still more or less follow what he’s trying to say.

“We need to take responsibility for this and vote next November and show that we have a certain set of values and we insist that our leaders reflect those values,”

No matter what, always bet on a member of the elite to close ranks and say that avoiding any formal punishment would be what really stings. Because at the end of the day, they’ve spent their whole life learning that accountability is what you use to weed out the little people who can’t be trusted. It’s not for them.…

COMEY NO GO AWAY

He didn’t commit a provable crime in the Russian collusion case, but Mueller did say that directly asking the head of a foreign nation to assist in interference with elections IS a crime and that’s what this is.

Oh, yeah. Mueller’s report could actually be the nail in the coffin since he openly said that what Dump did here is an unequivocal crime.

Everyone says that, but I think this is one case where the conventional wisdom in Washington is deeply isolated from the popular sentiment. I think that the majority of Americans are already convinced that impeachment is the necessary remedy for Trump’s crimes.

Slate is also reporting that Barr has had the OLC reclassify the whistleblower complaint as not urgent.

Well, yes of course! I’m just a little staggered that we might have just caught him in the act of this. Like, if the story hadn’t broken open, would he have just kept holding out for pro-Russia? Wow.

It is such a strange criticism, and revealing. 

How would they feel if she was crusading against, say, abortion or “mass migration” from less developed countries, and rousing passions in large audiences?

And honestly, if it means he’ll shut the hell up about it, I say give the baby his bottle. He gets a shiny new paperweight, and the rest of us are spared hearing him whine about this particular non-issue ever again.

No wonder Pence loves to fuck her, she looks like Newt Gingrich.

Does it ever feel like you might really be dead but not know it - and all this weird, surreal, dumb shit is just how limbo works?

The View is Pro Wrastlin’ for people who don’t want to watch the WWE.

Trump probably pushed the Ukrainian president into digging up dirt on Biden to bury him for the impending 2020 election. He then made this mysterious “promise” in exchange for this. I assume the quid pro quo involved providing financial aid (the U.S. did release military aid package to Ukraine after a July phone call…

How fucking far down his feed did he have to go to find this shit? He just sits there scrolling for obscure, questionable morons who tweet praise for him. So fucking pathetic. Also it’s been removed, apparently.

Which is not remotely germane to the point being made, but ok. 

This is such a bad faith argument on sooooooooooooooo many levels.

I’m not sure what Beto should've known better. I don't think he was under the delusion the Republicans would leave this alone or consider his proposal with logic and reason.