A rough transcript of a congratulatory phone call Pres. Trump made this spring to Ukraine's president-elect contained no mention of corruption, despite the White House shortly after the call saying Trump had broached the subject.
A rough transcript of a congratulatory phone call President Donald Trump made this spring to Ukraine's president-elect contained no mention of corruption, despite the White House shortly after the call saying Trump had broached the subject.
But the rough transcript was devoid of any discussion of corruption or policy matters. Rather, much of the call consisted of Trump praising Zelenskiy's campaign after the Ukrainian compared his own election to that of Trump’s. The document released by the White House is called a “memorandum of a telephone conversation,” and the first page notes that it “is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion,” but rather a recording of the notes and recollections of” officials who were “assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place.”
The White House previously released a memorandum of the president’s subsequent, July 25 call with Zelenskiy, which has become a key part of the impeachment inquiry. The memorandum’s release on Friday provided the White House with a piece of counter-messaging as public hearings in the impeachment inquiry continued on Capitol Hill. While the White House has sought to impede the Democrats’ probe by ordering his aides not to cooperate, Trump has pointed to the first memorandum’s release as a demonstration that he is"the most Transparent President in history.
"The April 21st call is notable in my mind because it was actually a very good call. It was exactly what we had -- we were hoping for," Vindman said."It was just -- everybody was happy, high-fiving from that call because we were moving in the right direction for Ukraine."
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