Jeffrey Toobin Shocked By White House Document: 'Quid Pro Quo Is Not In Code'
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is all of us.
We are incredulous about how bad the released Memorandum of Conversation between Trump and Ukraine's president Zelensky really, really is. Truly, if this is the released version, the one he thought would exonerate him and make him look innocent, can you just imagine how bad the original, unedited, actual conversation was? We don't have anything but past history to indicate that the Memo of Conversation was manipulated or altered to change or omit significant items, but hey. History, man. It's powerful. Does anyone think this guy suddenly developed ethics?
For any Republican feigning confusion or attempting diversion about the critical matter at hand, Toobin has the answer for you. It just so happens, a "quid pro quo" does not have to have occurred on the phone call for the president to have broken the law and shredded whatever was left of our foreign policy integrity and security. Simply asking a foreign power to investigate one's own political rival is a crime. BUT...it DID happen, that little quid pro quo thing.
Here's Kate Bolduan reading from the memo notes of the conversation, and Toobin's reaction.