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I was prepared for the “transcript” released by the White House yesterday to feel anticlimactic. It was, after all, only a partial transcript of the phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky — and a White House utterly lacking in credibility had control over the document. Its release seemed to have the makings of a miniature version of William Barr’s misleading summary of the Mueller report.

But the document turned out to be much more than that. If White House aides thought it would slow the momentum toward impeachment, they miscalculated. By day’s end, a majority of House members had come out in favor of impeachment, and Trump was conducting a desultory news conference, during which he behaved like the kind of “low energy” politician he often mocks.

What struck me most about the document was just how much Trumpism it packed into only five pages, including:

Failure to do the basics of the job. Trump was evidently supposed to call Zelensky to talk about Ukraine’s recent parliamentary elections. Right from the start, however, Trump was confused and focused on Zelensky’s original election, which occurred four months earlier. “The way you came from behind, somebody who wasn’t given much of a chance, and you ended up winning easily,” Trump says at the start of the call. Zelensky twice tried to steer Trump toward the correct subject.

Self-absorption. Whom else do you think Trump might have been thinking of when he described a surprising came-from-behind election victory?

Personal enrichment. Trump has made it clear that foreigners and Americans alike can curry favor with him by staying at one of his hotels, and Zelensky got the message: “Actually last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park and I stayed at the Trump Tower,” he said.

Lies and deception. Trump offers an outright falsehood about Joe Biden during the call, saying that Biden “stopped” some (non-existent) prosecution, but he also offers a litany of misleading statements, including his reference to the conspiracy theory that Russia did not actually hack Democratic emails in 2016.

Strong-arm tactics. In the call’s key moment, Trump says: “I would like you to do us a favor though.” He also says the following, about a former United States ambassador to Ukraine whom both he and Zelensky trash: “Well, she’s going to go through some things.”

Government officials as personal valets. On the call, Trump roped Barr, the attorney general, into his effort to pressure Zelensky, undermining the Justice Department’s post-Watergate history as an agency that puts service to the law above service to the president.

Self over country. That, of course, is the nub of the call and the reason it has sparked an impeachment inquiry. As Max Boot wrote in The Washington Post: “Trump is explicitly tying U.S. military aid to Ukraine to Ukraine’s willingness ‘to do us a favor.’ He then makes clear that the ‘us’ he is referring to is not the United States of America. It is the Trump campaign.”

For more

David French, Jennifer Taub and Noah Bookbinder make the case that the latest developments strengthen the case for impeachment. My colleague Bret Stephens argues that Democrats have gone too far, too fast. And on the latest episode of “The Argument” podcast, Ross Douthat, Michelle Goldberg and I debate the wisdom of impeachment.

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