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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho is whitewashing the transcripts? Eisenberg? At Barr's direction? This seems very significant
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This also solves the mystery of the ellipses, which administration officials had claimed was simply Trump trailing off. According to Vindman, they represent gaps in the transcript.
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uponit7771
(90,339 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Hope for his sake he follows John Dean's example. Here you go, Mr. Eisenberg, repeat this: "There is a cancer on the presidency."
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Were gonna see you sooner or later, pal - best you do as dawg suggests
seriously
RockRaven
(14,967 posts)Media that keep referring to it as a transcript are misinforming their readers/viewers.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,870 posts)They said it was a summary.
Now, all Repubs are required to squawk Just read the transcript! even though they know there is no damn transcript.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)Add it to the list.
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)triron
(22,003 posts)dem4decades
(11,293 posts)They knew it was damning and had to be cleansed. After they cleaned it up, Trump asked if it was okay to release and some one said to him, Yeah boss, it's perfect. so that's what Trump remembers, the call was perfect.
At least that's how I see it.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)Sounds very plausible. Trump would remember "it's perfect" and use that as his primary descriptor of the phone call.
I still have no idea why the abbreviated released notes allowed the QpQ to be shown. Someone f'd up.
dem4decades
(11,293 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)...but they were trying to get ahead of it the way Barr did with the Mueller report. They thought they'd take some heat but watered it down enough to weather it... not counting on a person testifying who actually listened to the call.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)... seems to completely undercut the "everybody does it" bullshit. The coverup will doom them.