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Trump’s transcript of Ukraine call unlikely verbatim


President Trump says transcript would show the call was ‘totally appropriate.’ (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: Details from a phone call made by Donald Trump that has led the US House of Representatives to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against the president isn’t likely to come from a recording or be verbatim, former White House and national security officials say.
Instead, because of standard White House protocol for handling phone calls between the president and other world leaders, a transcript is likely to be put together from written notes by US officials who listen in.
Trump said on Tuesday a “complete, fully declassified and unredacted …read more

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