Rough transcript of call shows Ukraine leader wanted Trump to attend inauguration
Source: Washington Post
Ukraine’s incoming President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly asked President Trump to attend his inauguration during their first phone call in April, according to a White House rough transcript of the call released Friday.
“At a very minimum, we’ll have a great representative,” Trump says after the first invite from Zelensky. The Ukrainian president then offers the invitation four more times, with Trump demurring each time.
There is no talk of investigations into the Biden family or the 2016 election in the call, which lasted about 16 minutes and occurred from Air Force One on April 21, according to the White House memorandum of the conversation. At one point, Trump vaguely says “we’ll have a lot of things to talk about” when the two men met.
The rough transcript shows how determined the new administration in Kyiv was to secure a meeting with Trump. State Department officials have testified they valiantly tried for months to schedule a meeting but could not because of the president’s feelings toward Ukraine and his desire to have politically-motivated investigations opened in the country.
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