Not
About
The
Transcript.
A transcript is from Trump officials’ selective notes, no audio recording.
It’s about: 1. What we already know; (Trump orders withholding of $391M from Ukraine immediately before calling PM)
2. The IG Report.
3. On top of earlier high crimes.
The former senior director of the White House Situation Room @LarryPfeifferDC write this must-read thread on the varying practices on creating transcripts.
It’s not an audio recording.
Many opportunities to edit by insiders:
It's officially a MEMCON, a memorandum of conversation (@LarryPfeifferDC, fmr dir WHSR).
"Memo" is apt, from Latin "It must be remembered."
And "memory" can be... highly selective.
h/t @TheJoshHiller