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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe full transcript of Trump's call to Ukraine exists! Probably even more damning.
Toward the bottom of page three of the whistle-blower's complaint he or she writes:
"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was producedas is customaryby the White House Situation Room."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistle-blower-complaint.html
This transcript is different than the shorter abbreviated series of notes of the call, sometimes referred to as memos, that we were given. This is now, of course "locked down" in the computer files reserved to classified security documents.
Since we have the shortened version, can't we force the WH to turn over the full version, one that likely refers to Trump's favor 8 times and could be more explicit in about Trump's quid pro quo?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Wish the media would not use the misleading term of 'transcript'.
skip fox
(19,356 posts)kentuck
(111,079 posts)We haven't heard what he said in those 7 other times?
We don't know the context and we don't know the language used.
It's a safe bet that the WH put out the least offensive of the bunch.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)The MSM dropped the issue and stayed focused on the one call, when he'd called multiple times? The ones not revealed are probably jammed with trump's malevolent intentions & blustering verbal salad. One damning half-sentence after another.
kentuck
(111,079 posts)The remainder of the transcript(s) will be very damning.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)If it's worse than what they released it must include a direct offer of aid for dirt as well as the request for a favor.
CousinIT
(9,239 posts)It seems they could request it. Since it was not supposed to be on that server to start with, it seems they'd be able to get it. But nothing is as simple as it seems it should be these days.
skip fox
(19,356 posts)had scrubbed any explicit quid pro quo from the document, and that's also why they were so surprised at the Democratic reaction.
This means AN EXPLICIT QUID PRO QUO EXISTS on the word-for-word transcript.
Find it and we'll find the smoking gun still in the suspect's tiny hands.