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live love laugh

(13,097 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:22 PM Sep 2019

The transcript reads for 12 minutes--the phone convo was 30 minutes

What’s missing? 🤷‍♀️

They said that the transcript would be unredacted.
It is. But it’s also truncated with large portions of the conversation missing.

Look at the ellipses and read between the lines.

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The transcript reads for 12 minutes--the phone convo was 30 minutes (Original Post) live love laugh Sep 2019 OP
Translation could account for some of the time, but The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #1
I read that the Ukrainian president is fluent in English. Having been to sinkingfeeling Sep 2019 #6
Not that I don't think that there would be BS from the WH, but... TruckFump Sep 2019 #2
If more than half is missing due to translation then live love laugh Sep 2019 #5
Rosemary Wood/Nixon re-run no_hypocrisy Sep 2019 #3
Where's the recording. I don't trust transcripts you can type what you want. TexasProgresive Sep 2019 #4
They don't make recordings jcgoldie Sep 2019 #7

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,664 posts)
1. Translation could account for some of the time, but
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:27 PM
Sep 2019

I don’t trust a damn thing that comes out of that administration.

sinkingfeeling

(51,444 posts)
6. I read that the Ukrainian president is fluent in English. Having been to
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 02:32 PM
Sep 2019

Ukraine, 90% of the people I met there spoke English.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
2. Not that I don't think that there would be BS from the WH, but...
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:29 PM
Sep 2019

... could part of the missing time be due to translation issues?

Too much time missing, IMO, to account for all of it...but unless both spoke the same language, there could be time taken up for this.

live love laugh

(13,097 posts)
5. If more than half is missing due to translation then
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:52 PM
Sep 2019

they should make it clear. Of course you can believe rhose portions of the call are being tampered with.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
7. They don't make recordings
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 02:38 PM
Sep 2019

Lawrence had a guest on last night some former WH official (sorry I wasn't paying close enough attention to know his exact role)... he said they quit making recordings of the President's phone calls in the 70s... all they have are notes to go by. Obviously these notes seem very redacted.

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