Biden Calls For Release Of Trump Call Transcript, Whistleblower Testimony

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 03:  Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the 19th Annual HRC National Dinner at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on October 3, 2015 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
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Former Vice President Joe Biden called Friday for the release of the transcript of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as the whistleblower’s testimony, so the American people can “judge for themselves.”

Fellow candidate former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) retweeted Biden’s statement saying “Joe is right: There is no bottom. Impeach him.”

Though other candidates have condemned Trump’s actions — including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) — they have been hesitant to support Biden by name.

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  1. Good on Joe. Good on Beto.

  2. A couple of items that somewhat relate, or are, maybe, off topic.

    But Her(His) Emails, Part Deux, the Vogelfanger Runs Amok!

    The insight of the outside observer, An Australian Reporter

    In most circumstances, presenting information in as intelligible a form as possible is what we are trained for. But the shock I felt hearing half an hour of unfiltered meanderings from the president of the United States made me wonder whether the editing does our readers a disservice.

    I’ve read so many stories about his bluster and boasting and ill-founded attacks, I’ve listened to speeches and hours of analysis, and yet I was still taken back by just how disjointed and meandering the unedited president could sound. Here he was trying to land the message that he had delivered at least something towards one of his biggest campaign promises and sounding like a construction manager with some long-winded and badly improvised sales lines.

    I’d understood the dilemma of normalising Trump’s ideas and policies – the racism, misogyny and demonisation of the free press. But watching just one press conference from Otay Mesa helped me understand how the process of reporting about this president can mask and normalise his full and alarming incoherence.

  3. Yes but if this turns into a Biden v. Trump thing, its promise will dissipate. It needs to be everyone who believes in the rule of law v. Trump, from the intelligence services, to Trump’s own appointees.

  4. But…but…he is saying exactly what I am thinking.

    Trump Supporter

  5. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    A person who’s doing the right thing will never say everyone else is doing it.

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