Donald Trump releasing the transcript with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky apparently has Russia in a bit of a panic, so the Kremlin sent Trump a warning from his buddy Vladimir Putin.
Asked (Friday) if Moscow is worried that the White House could similarly publish transcripts of Trump's calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that "we would like to hope that it wouldn't come to that in our relations, which are already troubled by a lot of problems."
The Kremlin’s thinking here could be that if Trump released a call that implicated him in an impeachable offense, what’s to prevent him from repeating the same kind of error with Russia in the future? I believe that Russia confirms this thinking, after its propaganda attack, by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, leveled against our very own Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
"Is it the Democrats' job to make a laughing stock of the United States?" the spokeswoman said. "It's exactly what Ms. Pelosi has done to Congress, the White House and other state institutions."
Methinks Putin is very worried. This attack is actually a huge compliment of Nancy Pelosi’s superior intellect, political skills, and depth of experience—and it was these attributes that likely had Trump in knots Tuesday, during his reported desperate call to make a deal with the Speaker to stop his impeachment.
This powerful exchange with Trump, reported by the New York Times in a piece that highlights the depth of Pelosi’s career in Congress, beautifully showcases how her experience will help in the drive to impeach Trump.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump were discussing gun violence over the telephone Tuesday morning when the president abruptly changed the topic to an intelligence community whistle-blower complaint that had Democrats talking about impeachment.
Ms. Pelosi stopped him short.
“Mr. President,” she declared, according to a person familiar with the conversation, “you have come into my wheelhouse.”
It is, and it’s that wheelhouse that has Russia concerned; the Kremlin knows that Pelosi is a serious threat to their continued control of Trump. If there was any doubt, then the nation’s desperate propaganda attack against the Speaker simply confirms it.