BREAKING: White House Ukraine expert says he tried to edit transcript of President Trump’s Ukraine call to include details that were omitted, according to one lawmaker present at the testimony and another source familiar with it.
At the time it was released, the White House noted that the summary of the call was not a verbatim transcript and that it represented a record of"the notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty officers and National Security Council policy staff" who listen to official conversations.
Vindman said he listened in on that call, and in his opening statement prepared for delivery said he went to the National Security Council lead attorney over his concerns, and that"I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine."
The Times reported that Vindman tried to change the reconstructed transcript made by the White House staff to reflect the omissions. But while some of his edits appeared to have been successful, he said, those two corrections were not made. Vindman did not testify to a motive behind the editing process, and it is not clear why some of his changes were not made, while others he recommended were, the newspaper reported.
Trump and his defenders have denied that there was any quid pro quo related to held-up aid to Ukraine and actions by that government. Trump has described the call as “perfect” and said he did nothing wrong, and has attacked the impeachment inquiry as a"witch hunt.
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