Is there a hard tape of Trump's "perfect call"?

[jmowreader]

If so, we must subpoena that recording and have it re-transcribed three times: once by a private sector scribe who is a Democrat and hasn’t read Trump’s script, once by a private sector scribe who is a Republican and who hasn’t read Trump’s script, and finally by the National Security Agency, who employs the government’s best transcribers. Then we need to compare the three transcripts to the one Trump keeps telling people to read.

I suspect Trump’s transcript is phonier than a three-dollar bill, and having the tape re-scribed by people not associated with Trump will prove it.

[dewsgirl]

1. Yes...but it's in the super secret server, along with Putin's calls

they will never turn it over.

[Botany]

2. Is there a hard tape of Trump's "perfect call"?

Yes, and "they" put it into a top level security lock down along with the real transcription
of the call. At least that is what I have gotten from "the internets" and news stories.

The one Trump and company released is 10 minutes long but the call lasted 30 minutes.
The crazy thing is the redacted transcription and Trump's own mouth provided more than
enough evidence of Trump's guilt and the "other call" Trump has talked about that vindicates
him looks like it never happened.

[leftieNanner]

3. If it exists,

Then it's probably buried deep in that secret server. Doubt we could ever get it released - even with an iron clad subpoena. They would just run to the courts to block its release. Delay. Delay. Delay.

I like your idea though.

[EarnestPutz]

4. This is exactly right. You have put into words....

....exactly what I've been thinking since the first mention of the phone call. If I remember correctly, at first, it wasn't even characterized as a "transcript", but as a summation of several National Security Agency's people's notes as they listened in on the call. It was briefly criticized for it's use of ellipses to avoid finishing sentences. Remember that the original tape was locked away on a "secure" database.

[EarnestPutz]

6. I just read the first three comments that were written while I was....

...writing my comment. That the conversation being stored on the secure server is all the more reason to demand it's release to professional transcribers. They can't argue secrecy or national security if they have already released what they purport to be an accurate transcript.

[mopinko]

5. there is no tape. only a transcript.

vindman says that the wh memo is functionally accurate.

so, no.

[EarnestPutz]

7. Is it really possible that an oval office telephone conversation was not recorded?

[mopinko]

11. yes. since nixon, oval office tapes are seen as a dangerous thing.

quite rightly, too.

[Voltaire2]

8. The actual transcript of the call is being withheld from the House.

The administration has obstructed every effort to obtain the actual transcript or to have anyone who was present testify under oath.

[Karadeniz]

9. I thought they said they don't make tapes. However, there's supposed to be a more thorough

Transcript.

[jpak]

10. Better still - play the tape live in public on the Senate floor.

It's "perfect" after all.

[California_Republic]

12. I would think Ukraine recorded it too