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Trump asked the president of Ukraine to work with Rudy Giuliani and William Barr to “look into” his political rival, Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript of a call between the two leaders, @justinsink reports.

Read the rough transcript here:

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The rough transcript includes “the notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty Officers and NSC policy staff assigned to listen and memorialize the conversations in written form as the conversation takes place,” the unclassified document says.

Voice recognition software was used on the Trump/Zelensky call.

The rough transcript the White House released was developed via the voice software along with aides from the White House national security team who were listening in, per a senior admin official.

Trump, in WH residence on July 25, asked Zelensky for “a favor.”

“I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it.”

Explanation from sr admin official on ellipses in WH Trump/Ukraine transcript:

They don’t indicate missing words. They refer to voice trailing off, or pause. Standard practice for aides memorializing head-of-state calls is to represent missing words with brackets or redactions.

At UNGA, Trump asked how it’s not “pressure” when he stated how good US is to Ukraine then asked Zelensky for a favor about Biden.

Trump: "There was no pressure. The way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. It turned out to be a nothing call."

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone walked through Trump-Ukraine call transcript this a.m. with 6 US senators and 6 US House members, per @LauraLitvan.

Trump phoned in 30 minutes in, and argued there's “nothing” in there and news report about him raising Biden 8 times wasn’t true.

In UN bilat with cameras rolling, Ukraine’s Zelensky jokes It's better to be on TV with Trump than to talk “by phone.”

Trump mentions owning the Miss Universe pageant.

“We had a winner from Ukraine."

(photo by @W7VOA)

"I think, and you read it, that nobody pushed it,” Ukraine’s Zelensky says in UN bilat with Trump.

Asked if he asked Nancy Pelosi to find a way out of impeachment, Trump in Zelensky bilat seems quite irritated with her.

“She’s been taken over by the radical left,” Trump says. “As far as I’m concerned, unfortunately, she’s no longer the speaker of the House.”

WH’s transcript of Trump-Ukraine call shows Trump did pressure Zelensky to reopen Biden investigation. All that remains in dispute is whether Zelensky understood Trump’s demand to be a quid pro quo: dirt on Biden in exchange for US aid, @justinsink writes.
bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…

“I don't want to be involved in the election of USA,” Ukraine’s Zelensky said in Trump bilat.

“It was normal. We spoke about many things. I think, and you read it, that nobody pushed it.”

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