In notes taken contemporaneously by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the President of Ukraine specifically mentioned the energy company Burisma in response to President Trump’s insistence that an investigation take place.This line, as well as the previous sentence in the phone call, was edited out of the memorandum that the White House released to the public over a month ago. Mr. Trump has repeatedly insisted that the memorandum was a “word for word” transcript. We now know that to be a lie.In Lt. Col. Vindman’s deposition, he told Congress that he had taken notes of the conversation between the two Presidents in July. Vindman explains that the White House edited the memorandum to remove specific mentions of Burisma.“It’s not just the recollection,” the Lieutenant Colonel told the House, “I took notes from the call... They’re in my highly classified notebook.”When asked to read what his notes said, Vindman stated that the President said, “There are recordings of Biden” discussing a prosecutor. This entire comment was instead changed to an ellipsis by the White House.In response, President Zelensky said, his prosecutor would “look into the situation specifically to Burisma that you mentioned.” The White House changed Zelensky’s words from “Burisma” to “the company.”Here is a screenshot of the specific exchange in the transcript the House released today:
Xander707 on November 8th, 2019 at 20:45 UTC »
And now we have confirmation of what we have all known since the beginning of this saga; the memorandum of the call the White House released was edited to appear less incriminating than it actually was. Again and again this administration attempts to mislead the public and is anything but transparent. The recording of the call must be released so that Americans get the truth.
ActualSpiders on November 8th, 2019 at 20:45 UTC »
"Read the transcript!"
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"No, read this transcript! The one I doctored to look innocent!"
Trump is not just a crook, he's the stupidest crook.
Kether_Nefesh on November 8th, 2019 at 19:26 UTC »
This reminds me of the yadda, yadda, yadda thing from Seinfeld
Edit: thank you kind stranger!