It was a tit for tat move to retaliate for the Pelosi Salongate incident. That’s why even though this supposedly occurred in 2018, the article was written a couple days after Pelosi got hit with that story. It’s also why it was randomly written by the editor in chief of The Atlantic, so that other papers would run with it and not question the fact that the claim is based solely on faith in Jeff Goldberg’s journalistic integrity. Nothing More. Which is a precarious foundation to argue from give that Pelosi and Goldberg appear to be more than acquaintances, judging by how many sit-down interviews she’s done with him.

I guarantee you if one were to play this whole thing out and spend the next year tracking down sources and somehow compelling them to tell you what happened, the facts of what occurred will be similar to the Ukraine phone call; a misinterpretation of what Donny said, by other people with bias against him.