While Donald Trump did ask the Ukrainian president to investigate his Joe Biden and his son, the situation could well turn against the rival of the US president.
A phone call from Donald Trump resembles his tweets or his meetings. He goes from cock to donkey and flatters his interlocutor as if he were the great, somewhat settled sachem of a distant tribe. It's confusing, disarming, but the general idea is bludgeoned.
In July, he wanted Ukraine to investigate the dubious cases of Joe Biden's last son and a possible intervention by his father to save him.
Stir the mud, it's dirty. To incite a foreign country to harm a political adversary is ugly. But Donald Trump does not threaten the Ukrainian, he promises nothing. He does not mention the 400 million military aid he has blocked. He does not sing it, even to capella. Obviously, he knows that magneto revolve, like Paul Bismuth!
We expect full verbatim, but it is not clear that Donald Trump has crossed the yellow line.
It is also not clear that this phone call is "internal intelligence activity involving the security of the country", the only case where the law allows a member of the services to launch the alert.
The case could well turn against the Democratic Party. Notably against Joe Biden, whose big son is fragile and has always protected. For the first time this Wednesday, he was surpassed in the polls by Elisabeth Warren (his rival in the primaries). He sees a tuxedo gun, the murder weapon, in this recording. We do not know who died.