JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “The White House’s release of a readout of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president largely vindicates a Washington Post editorial from Sept. 5 that first revealed that Trump had pressured Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden. While it drew some buzz at the time, the unsigned and loosely sourced editorial mostly went under the radar despite making the damning allegation that Trump was urging a foreign leader to probe a political rival — and doing so more than two weeks before the scandal fully broke open. In the piece, The Post’s editorial board described being ‘reliably told’ that Trump ‘is attempting to force’ Zelensky ‘to intervene in the 2020 U.S. presidential election by launching an investigation of’ Biden. And Trump, they continued, ‘is not just soliciting Ukraine’s help with his presidential campaign; he is using U.S. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it.’”
–Michael Calderone, “Washington Post editorial quietly broke open Trump’s Ukraine scandal,” Politico, September 25, 2019 2:20 pm