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So a public official making a statement or writing an op-ed is interference vis a vis a dedicated campaign of troll farms, disinformation, hacking servers, distribution of illegally obtained emails, etc. So are you saying the US does the same thing Russia is doing, because that is what I mean by interference, it is what the IC mean by interference. So unless you have some information I don't have, I think there is a better choice of words to describe your concerns.

This is not to say the US has not in the past (and I believe may be still actively engaged in a specific case) meddled in foreign elections i.e. regime change.

The case is not about "just" a phone call. There was a large scale conspiracy, led by Mr Trump, using Sec Pompeo, Amb Sondland, CoS Mulvaney, and a host of minor henchmen to leverage US standing as a hegemony over Ukraine by withholding 1) essential, Congressionally authorized,military aid, and proper DoD signoff, 2) WH meeting to solidify allied relationship and enhance Pres Zelenskiy to his people, in consideration of 1) investigations into Burisma, 2) investigations into Crowdstrike in relation to 2016 and hacking DNC, 3) investigation into Hunter and VP Biden for corruption. The investigations had a 2-fold purpose. First to undermine the Mueller Report and the IC determinations Russia was behind the meddling i.e. it was Ukraine, and second, to use corruption investigations as political dirt in the 2020 election against a putative political opponent.