BREAKING: NYT: LTC Vindman testified today that the WH transcript of the Zelensky call omitted key details & that he tried & failed to add key details. As well, there is (for some reason) no recording of the call. EXPLOSIVE testimony. #TuesdayThoughts nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/…
2-"Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases,
3-" and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony. The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption,
4-"and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter. Colonel Vindman, who appeared on Capitol Hill wearing his dark blue Army dress uniform and military medals,
5-"told House impeachment investigators that he tried to change the reconstructed transcript made by the White House staff to reflect the omissions. But while some of his edits appeared to have been successful, he said, those two corrections were not made.
6-"Colonel Vindman did not testify to a motive behind the editing process. But his testimony is likely to drive investigators to ask further questions about how officials handled the call, including changes to the transcript and the decision to put it into the White House’s
7-"most classified computer system — and whether those moves were meant to conceal the conversation’s most controversial aspects...It is not clear why some of Colonel Vindman’s changes were not made, while others he recommended were, but the decision by a White House lawyer to
8-"quickly lock down the reconstructed transcript subverted the normal process of handling such documents. The note-takers and voice recognition software used during the July 25 call had missed Mr. Zelensky saying the word “Burisma,” but the reconstructed transcript does
9-"reference “the company,” and suggests that the Ukrainian president is aware that it is of great interest to Mr. Trump. The rough transcript also contains ellipses at three points where Mr. Trump is speaking. Colonel Vindman told investigators that at the point of the
10-"transcript where the third set of ellipses appears, Mr. Trump said there were tapes of Mr. Biden..." ~And the article goes on..
This is a MASSIVE cover-up. Massive. LTC Vindman is truly an American Hero. #TuesdayThoughts
This is a MASSIVE cover-up. Massive. LTC Vindman is truly an American Hero. #TuesdayThoughts
