Thursday, October 3, 2019

The Trump-Ukraine “transcript,” explained

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/25/20883420/full-transcript-trump-ukraine-zelensky-white-house


The biggest takeaway from the summary: it sure looks like a quid pro quo

It’s important to note, at the outset, that this call summary is not quite a verbatim transcript of what Trump and Zelensky said. It’s written like a transcript, with direct quotations assigned to each leader, but it is not an authoritative transcription of an audio recording — as a note on the first page makes clear.

3 comments:

  1. So. Because something appears like squid praw claw or whatever we nullify an election that cost billions, took months, and that tens of millions participated in.

    That's democracy?! What about some proof, ok? Something more than a feeling, maybe? President Zelensky says he didn't sense any pressure.

    OH I GET IT. By definition President Dinald Trump is incompetent, as we've been told here. So, of course President Zelensky didn't feel pressure. The President messed up and failed to apply pressure!!!

    Time to try fascism. Can't be much worse.

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  2. The article is wrong. There never was an audio recording, to take a transcript of. Instead, they use what rebbe's do -- use 'zoggers' who memorialize what the rebbe said on shabbat, the rebbe's drasha.

    Even the NYTimes admits there was no quid pro quo, no threat to cut off the military aid.

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  3. the transcript was provided by the white house

    trump claimed it was verbatim in contradiction to what is stated on the transcript

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