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Trump Posted Deceptive Transcript of Zelenskyy Meeting on White House Web Site
The transcript has been deleted — why?
Although I was only watching television, I joined Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova in putting my face in my hands as I listened to the now-infamous White House meeting between President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Towards the end of the meeting, Trump was at his worst. In a meeting with a foreign head of state, President Trump was ranting about the “Russia Hoax,” screaming “Russia, Russia, Russia” at one point and calling out Hunter Biden.
I wanted to read the transcript because I missed seeing Trump’s outburst. I found it on the White House website, but something was missing — Trump’s rant. In its place was an ellipsis, punctuation of three dots indicating that something has been omitted from a quote or to show a pause in speech.
Here is the unedited text of what Trump said in response to a reporter’s question of what would happen if President Putin broke his word after an agreement was reached for a cease fire or end to hostilities in Ukraine:
What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now? Okay, what if they broke it? I don‘t know. They broke it with Biden because Biden didn‘t respect him. They didn‘t respect Obama. They respect me. Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia … You ever hear of that deal? That was a phony. That was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam. Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff, it was a Democrat scam. And he had to go through that. And he did go through it. We didn‘t end up in a war. And he went through it. He was accused of all that stuff. He had nothing to do with it. It came out of Hunter Biden‘s bathroom. It came out of Hunter Biden‘s bedroom. It was disgusting. And then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by Russia. The 51 agents The whole thing was a scam. And he had to put up with that. He was being accused of all that stuff. All I can say is this: he might have broken deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken them with Biden. He did maybe, maybe he…
