Accept for Trump doesn’t have the same rights as MI5 the law is very clear on that. When it involves a political opponent in an upcoming race the rules change. What Trump should have done is handed everything to the FBI and took a step back. Under no circumstances should Trump be investigating political opponents himself. They can be investigated but not by the president.No i'm not, the reason i brought up the MI5 analogy is because Trump has the right to do what he did in the transcripts, much like the MI5 have the right to hack someones computer if someone is planning a terrorist attack. You think the transcripts prove Trump is guilty of committing a crime, but the commentators who are experts in constitutional law disagree with that.
There were 12 people listening to that call to Zelensky, if there was a smoking gun in there, you would have thought there would be more than 1 whistleblower. Isn't ironic that the whistleblower is the person who welcomed Ukrainian officials into the Whitehouse when Obama was president.
That's not how it works, there is a protocol, if that protocol was broken, there would be a whistleblower saying that parts were edited out. It's literally their job to make sure the transcripts represent what was said, even if its shorter than the actually conversation.
If i assume Trump is guilty, and edited parts out, then we would know, from the 12 people in the room, there would be a lot of people telling us that large swathes of the transcript were edited. Although its pretty much impossible for the President to do, there are too many people involved.
You keep ignoring the whistle-blowers combined with the people working directly for Trump who take orders directly from Trump having put out a statements saying Trump did commit a crime. You acting like everything is about one phone call it’s not. There was multiple phone calls and other events over a 1+ year timeframe. 1 heavily edited transcript doesn’t clear Trump for the entire year or the other phone calls.
I don’t recall saying recently that I think the transcripts prove Trump commented a crime. What I said is the transcript in the current state does not prove that Trump is innocent. Only a full transcript could do that and not just off the 1 call from the other call(s) would need to be fully transcript as well. .
“There were 12 people listening to that call to Zelensky, if there was a smoking gun in there, you would have thought there would be more than 1 whistleblower. “
More then one person has come forward to say Trump is guilty. One of which says he was trying to use back channels to arrange meetings with Zelensky for Trump, before the phone call to explained how the aid and other things where being withhold pending the investigation. We have no reason to believe those people are not telling the truth and if they are that means Trump commented a crime. Remember when this all started there was there was talk of Whitehouse staff becoming aware of unofficial back-channels that shouldn’t be there bypassing them and main channel? The person involved in that unofficial backchannel said he was under Trump’s orders soliciting foreign aid against a political rival.

