Thursday, October 03, 2019

It's Not a Transcript and It's 20 Minutes Shorter Than the Call

“This is an exact word-for-word transcript of the conversation, taken by very talented stenographers,” Trump said.
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Others have noted the brevity of a document purporting to represent a call that lasted 30 minutes. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) had two of his office’s interns read the call summary aloud, measuring its length with a stopwatch app. The time: 10 minutes 40 seconds, or roughly 20 minutes shorter than the White House’s assertion about the call’s length.