Vindman’s bombshell opens an important new avenue for the impeachment inquiry. What officials were involved in the cover-up? Will one of them produce an original recording or full transcript?
Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images When he released a “transcript” of his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump called it a “an exact word-for-word transcript of the conversation, taken by very talented stenographers.” Trump could not have been more explicit in his claim that the White House had, in full transparency, published a complete account of the call.
At the beginning of the month, the Washington Post published a detailed, highly persuasive yet generally-overlooked report summarizing the evidence that the “rough transcript” had been abridged. It contains ellipses in several places, which call summaries with foreign leaders usually do not. The word count does not match the reported length of the conversation: It takes about 10 minutes to read the White House-released summary, whereas the conversation took three times that long.
The Times does not have a full account of the expunged conversation. The “rough transcript” has three ellipses where Trump is speaking. Vindman testified that the third ellipsis omits Trump asserting there were recordings of Joe Biden discussing corruption in Ukraine. The Times does not know what Trump comments the other two sets of ellipses hide, but reports “the [missing] phrases do not fundamentally change lawmakers’ understanding of the call,” which is already quite damning.
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