The White House released a memo partially documenting the July 25 conversation between the president and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. Here's an analysis of what may be the most important phone call of Trump's presidency
The White House on Wednesday released a “
” documenting the July 25 conversation between the president and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.The record of their 30-minute call, which took place just a day after special counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress, offers an inside look at how President Trump conducts personal diplomacy with his fellow world leaders. And while ambiguous, it also backs up accounts alleging that Trump threatened to withhold U.S.
Below is our line-by-line analysis of the released memorandum, which shows a freewheeling Trump by turns buttering up his interlocutor, passing along unverified and dubious allegations about Biden and Democrats, and cajoling the Ukrainian leader into doing him a “favor.”Here Trump starts out his call with Zelensky by emphasizing how much the U.S. spends on Ukraine and implying the country is dependent on that aid because Europe isn’t doing its fair share. By saying the U.S.
This is also the first instance in the memo where Trump refers to the Bidens by name, and again repeats the false claim that “Biden stopped the prosecution” of his son Hunter. He repeats his request that Zelensky work with Attorney General Barr.It’s not clear why Zelensky seems to dislike Yovanovich, but it could have to do with her falling out earlier this year with Ukraine’s special anti-corruption prosecutor at the time.
“He doesn’t give you questions, he doesn’t give you orders, he speaks in a code,” Cohen said. “And I understand the code, because I’ve been around him for a decade.”
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