President Donald Trump said he would consider releasing a transcript of his phone call with Ukraine’s leader — just hours after two Cabinet secretaries said such conversations must remain “private”
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would consider releasing a transcript of a phone call he had with Ukraine’s leader, even though two of his Cabinet secretaries said only hours earlier that such conversations must remain “private.”
“We’ll make a determination about how to release it, releasing it, saying what we said,” the president told reporters in Houston. “It was an absolutely perfect conversation. The problem is, when you’re speaking to foreign leaders, you don’t want foreign leaders to feel that they shouldn’t be speaking openly and good. … You want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that not every single word is going to be going out and going out all over the world.
Those seeking an investigation want to know whether Trump, in a July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, made U.S. aid contingent on the country’s looking into Biden’s son Hunter, who had business dealings there. On Sunday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the details of Trump’s call shouldn’t be made public.“I would leave whether that should be released” to the White House, he added.Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.“I think it would be highly inappropriate to release a transcript of a call between two world leaders,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”“What I have a problem with is Congress asking for a transcript between world leaders,” he said. “I think that those are confidential discussions, and that’s a difficult precedent.
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