Donald Trump made a HUGE mistake releasing the Ukraine transcript
The rough log of the call makes quite clear to any fair-minded person that Trump did the following things:
1) Repeatedly reminded Zelensky of how much the United States does (and can do) for Ukraine.
2) Asked Zelensky to investigate debunked allegations of corrupt activity by Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in Ukraine
3) Said he would put Attorney General William Barr and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in touch with Zelensky to follow up about the Biden probe.
That's not an interpretation of what Trump said or a second-hand account of the call. It is an, admittedly rough, transcript released (and presumably blessed) by the White House. In which the President of the United States says things like "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time" and "Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it ... It sounds horrible to me." (There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden.)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript/index.html
