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Fact check: Trump, telling a completely fictional story, falsely claims he released ‘the tape’ of his Zelensky call ​

basilio said:

Tall Tales and BS from Donald Trump in Ohio

Why should anyone believe anything he said without checking it elsewhere ? Obviously the glued on MAGA supporters will lap up absolutely any rubbish he sprouts. But if you a Republican or Independent voter with some acuity you would be very unlikely to accept his fantasies.

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Fact check: Trump, telling a completely fictional story, falsely claims he released ‘the tape’ of his Zelensky call ​

By Daniel Dale, CNN

4 minute read

Published 1:01 PM EDT, Sun March 17, 2024

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday.
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Washington CNN —

Former President Donald Trump told an entirely fictional story on Saturday about how he had supposedly outwitted his Democratic opponents by releasing “the tape” of the 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was a key factor in Trump’s first impeachment.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/17/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-zelensky-call-pelosi/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

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Read Trump’s phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky​

moXJO said:

Hmmm CNN

Also CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript-call/index.html

Read Trump’s phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky​

President Donald Trump repeatedly pushed for Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter, during a July 25 phone call, according to a transcript of the conversation released by the White House.
Read the transcript here:


Is it April first or something?
or are we now splitting hairs over transcripts of phone calls.

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basilio said:

You clearly didn't bother reading the Fact check did you Mox ? Either that or you just can't add 2 plus 2. Or won't . Or whatever.

For the record

Facts First: Trump’s story is a complete fabrication. No tape of his call with Zelensky was ever released; Pelosi could not possibly have been angry with her allies after hearing a tape of the call because she has never heard a tape of the call. In fact, as of nearly five years after the July 2019 call, there is no known US recording of the conversation. What Trump’s White House actually released in September 2019 was a rough written transcript of the call — which corroborated, rather than contradicted, a government whistleblower’s central allegations about what Trump had said. Pelosi spokesperson Aaron Bennett said Sunday that Trump’s story is “fact-free nonsense.”

Presidential phone calls with foreign leaders are not typically recorded by the American side. Instead, they are inexactly memorialized in written form by a combination of software and US officials who listen in.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was one of the officials listening to Trump’s call with Zelensky in his role at the time as the top Ukraine expert for the White House’s National Security Council (and who later became an important witness in the impeachment inquiry), told CNN in a text message on Sunday that there is “no recording” of the call.

“He’s lying,” Vindman said.

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basilio said:

I think you are being far too kind with regard to Donald Trumps views on US support for European countries.

If he truly was wanting to support independent countries from being invaded by Russia he would be supporting Ukraine and not fluttering eyelashes at The Great Putin.

In any case he has raised European concern about the role of NATO in depending Western Europe. He is not trusted or believed. He is an isolationist.

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