Not Looking Good for Trump

There are good impeachment round-ups in both The New York Times and the Associated Press. Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney who was tasked to ferret out juicy Russiagate tidbits and Biden dross in Kiev, was subpoenaed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Giuliani was given until October 15 to produce records showing that other Trump administration officials were working to get the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden. Giuliani made a statement on CNN in September to this effect.

It was reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was listening in on the July 25 call to Ukrainian president Zelensky. Pompeo will likely be subpoenaed soon.

The Times also has a story on the super-secret White House computer network, NICE, where the July 25 Trump-Zelensky chat was archived. There are ellipses in the phone transcript which happen to occur in places where Trump is asking Zelensky for an investigation:

Is the White House account of Trump’s Ukraine call accurate and complete?

Beyond the fact that the memo is not a verbatim transcript, it contains three ellipses where Mr. Trump was speaking — and each in a place where he was asking the Ukrainian president for investigations.

It is not clear if this indicates that Mr. Trump trailed off or that something was cut out of the reconstruction. It is also not clear whether any notes exist by American officials that would indicate whether he said anything more in those spots.

But one official said that any notes or draft documents discussed by two or more National Security Council officials counts as a “record” that may not lawfully be destroyed under the Presidential Records Act. However, the initial file produced by the voice-to-text software would not count as a record and could be lawfully deleted, the official said.

It's not looking good for Trump. I can't understand why guys like Ray McGovern are rushing to his defense.