We've all known the summary of the Ukraine phone call was just a memo. Trump's now saying there were Stenographers on the Ukraine phone call. Senators are saying at least 20 mins. of conversation missing. Why is the WH stonewalling the release of the transcript of a "perfect call"? https://www.newsweek.com/senator-ki...missing-trump-ukraine-call-transcript-1462622 SENATOR KING SUGGESTS AT LEAST 20 MINUTES ARE MISSING FROM TRUMP UKRAINE CALL TRANSCRIPT The full transcript of the now-infamous call between the two leaders has not been released. Though the document makes clear that the read out has been edited, it is not clear exactly how much has been cut, and what those sections may contain. King told Cooper he has a "hunch" about the edited transcript, the release of which pushed the Democratic Party to open an impeachment investigation into the president. "I had two staff members from my office the other day read it aloud. And we timed it," King explained. "They read it in normal speaking pace. It took them 10 minutes and 40 seconds. The phone call was 30 minutes. Now, we don't know what is missing." King admitted that some, or even all, of the missing time could have been taken up by translators facilitating the call. "It may be there was a translator involved and that made it go much longer," the senator acknowledged. "But the president of the Ukraine speaks English. If there was no translator that raises a question of what's in the other 20 minutes of that discussion." Zelensky is not fluent in English, despite claims to the contrary by some observers. While his skills are increasing, RFERL Christopher Miller noted the president " would certainly need a translator to speak in the manner in which this memo suggests he did." King noted that he has long been lukewarm on the prospect of impeaching the president. However, he cited the time gap on the phone call memo as the reason "why I think there has to be an inquiry to get to the facts surrounding this, what looks like at least an attempted transaction." @ :43
The asset needs permission from the Kremlin before anything. Release of Trump-Putin transcripts needs Russian approval, Kremlin says ‘If the American send us signals, then we’ll discuss it’ Leaders have held at least 11 phone calls and met in person The Kremlin has said it would need to give permission for Donald Trump to release details of his one-on-one conversations with Vladimir Putin, a likely target of Democratic lawmakers in an upcoming impeachment inquiry. Speaking with journalists on Monday, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said that the release of summaries or transcripts of the two leaders’ discussions – details of which have remained a closely guarded secret – is “only possible with the mutual agreement of both sides”. “Diplomatic practice does not allow for the publication [of these records],” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news service. “So if the Americans send us signals, then we’ll discuss it.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-conversations-transcripts-russian-permission
Hey Bozo, you were all aboard the Russia Collusion hoax, now you are all over this. 2019 is the year of hoax, and you bought into every single one of them.
GOP senator says diplomat told him Trump was withholding aid to ensure investigations Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a staunch Trump ally, told The Wall Street Journal the diplomat's comments made him 'wince.' ' Sen. Ron Johnson, a top Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said a U.S. diplomat told him in August that the Trump administration had frozen almost $400 million in aid to Ukraine because the president wanted a commitment that Kyiv would carry out investigations related to U.S. elections. The Wisconsin senator, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday, said he called Trump about the allegation on Aug. 31, and that Trump vehemently denied it. "He said—expletive deleted—'No way. I would never do that. Who told you that?" Johnson recounted Trump as telling him in the call, according to the paper. Johnson told The Wall Street Journal that he was informed of the allegations by U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. Speaking to reporters in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, before The Wall Street Journal story was published, Johnson said that during the Aug. 31 talk, he asked Trump to "give me the authority to tell [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelinskiy that we were going to provide that" aid. "I didn't succeed," Johnson said, according to audio of the interview posted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. As for why not, Johnson said Trump had concerns, including about "what happened in 2016." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/tr...t-told-him-trump-was-withholding-aid-n1062706
My brother's, ex-girlfriend's, uncle's, former boss', son's, soccer coach said Trump was an alien and he came here from a galaxy far, far away. All this second crap is pointless and meaningless. We heard countless secondhand accounts of Trump Russia collusion, but when it came actual evidence, the Dems failed to produce any.
Maybe if we didn't have a head obstructionist criminal covering for Trump at the DOJ, we'd see the underacted accounts and have access to those conversations rather than hear them 2nd hand.