The former president said he had allegedly attended to his Democratic opponents by releasing a “recording” of a phone conversation with Zelensky. However, as it turned out, the recording never existed.
Former US President Donald Trump, at a meeting with voters in Ohio, told a completely fictional story about his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, which took place in 2019. Reported CNN on Sunday, March 17.
In July 2019, a telephone conversation took place between Zelensky and Trump, in which the American president asked his colleague in Ukraine to “do him a favor” and reopen the investigation into Hunter Biden, whose father Joe Biden was Trump’s likely rival at the time. in the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden has been a member of the board of directors of one of the largest gas companies in Ukraine, Burisma Holdings, for five years. Republicans accused him of corruption.
In September 2019, the Trump administration released a transcript of the call. According to Democrats in Congress, who previously officially announced the start of Trump’s impeachment proceedings, asking for a “favor” could be considered treason.
Now, as quoted by CNN, Trump said he allowed Democrats to make “wilder and wilder” claims about the content of the conversation, “and then we released the tape.”
Trump said then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, “heard” the recording and was furious that members of his party had misled him with a “false” description of the call. According to Trump, Pelosi told “her people”: “What the hell have you gotten me into? Did you hear that call? He didn’t do any of that!”
Trump said Pelosi responded: “Let’s just pretend she did it and move on.”
“After they made up the story and then listened to the tape, they died. They didn’t know the phone call was being recorded. That’s a good example of a phone call being taped. And they were taped , and they were caught. .” “,” CNN quoted Trump’s latest statement.
CNN did a fact check on Trump’s story and found it to be a complete fiction. No recording of her conversation with Zelensky has been made public, and therefore Pelosi will not be able to listen to it.
It is known that there is still no known American recording of the conversation. What the Trump White House released in September 2019 was a rough written transcript that confirmed rather than denied key claims of what Trump said.
Telephone conversations between the US President and foreign leaders are usually not recorded by the American side, the authors of the material added. Instead, they are inaccurately recorded by writing software and listening officers.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was one of the officials who listened to Trump’s call with Zelensky while the top expert on Ukraine on the White House National Security Council, told CNN there was “no recording” of the conversation.
“He’s lying,” Vindman said.
Let’s recall that the telephone conversation between the US President and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky, which took place on July 25, 2019, caused a scandal and led to the launch of Trump’s impeachment proceedings.
According to opponents of the American leader, during the call he tried to influence Zelensky to start an investigation into the activities of Biden’s son in Ukraine in exchange for providing financial and military assistance to Kyiv.
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Source: korrespondent
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