Wednesday, 25 September 2019

White House releases "call summary" of Ukraine call

After promising a "transcript" of a controversial call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House today released a "call summary" offering details of the conversation but specifically described as "not a verbatim transcript". The call was exposed by a still-secret whistleblower complaint, but it was understood Trump asked Zelensky to launch an investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. He did, according to the summary, which also implicates Attorney General William Barr and spokesman/lawyer/gofer Rudy Giuliani in the plan.