Who is whitewashing the transcripts? Eisenberg? At Barr's direction? This seems very significant

[kpete]

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This also solves the mystery of the ellipses, which administration officials had claimed was simply Trump trailing off. According to Vindman, they represent gaps in the transcript.

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, There's ***NO DOUBT*** Trump has everything related to Joe Biden bugged NO DOUBT

[NCLefty]

15. Who would do this? Are you accusing CIA or FBI?

[uponit7771]

20. Nope, Red Don would have one of his Rudy goons do it. They're are truly mobbed up at the WH

[dawg day]

2. That Eisenberg is going to find himself in the John Dean position...

Hope for his sake he follows John Dean's example. Here you go, Mr. Eisenberg, repeat this: "There is a cancer on the presidency."

[Leghorn21]

6. Yep - his name keeps popping up - he seems to be very near the center of this infamy

We’re gonna see you sooner or later, pal - best you do as dawg suggests

seriously

[RockRaven]

3. The "transcript" is not a transcript, it is a summary/memo and was whitewashed at birth.

Media that keep referring to it as a transcript are misinforming their readers/viewers.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Great point!!!

[SCantiGOP]

9. Exactly

They said it was a summary.
Now, all Repubs are required to squawk “Just read the transcript!” even though they know there is no damn transcript.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Violations of the Presidential Records Act?

Add it to the list.

[JoeOtterbein]

5. Rachel Maddow is talking about it now.

[triron]

17. She may get to the bottom of it soon.

[dem4decades]

7. I think I understand how the "perfect" phone call came to be.

They knew it was damning and had to be cleansed. After they cleaned it up, Trump asked if it was okay to release and some one said to him, Yeah boss, it's perfect. so that's what Trump remembers, the call was perfect.

At least that's how I see it.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. That's exactly how I would see it too.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. Interesting conjecture.

Sounds very plausible. Trump would remember "it's perfect" and use that as his primary descriptor of the phone call.

I still have no idea why the abbreviated released notes allowed the QpQ to be shown. Someone f'd up.

[dem4decades]

14. Unless someone changed the edits to put evidence back in. Didn't the Lt Col say he changed some?

[jcgoldie]

13. I think they released it knowing it would be a mess...

...but they were trying to get ahead of it the way Barr did with the Mueller report. They thought they'd take some heat but watered it down enough to weather it... not counting on a person testifying who actually listened to the call.

[jcgoldie]

11. editing the transcript shows consciousness of guilt

... seems to completely undercut the "everybody does it" bullshit. The coverup will doom them.

[lunasun]

16. Kick

[EveHammond13]

18. Eisenberg is the name to follow

[spanone]

19. It also seems like it should be highly illegal