A NINETEEN MINUTE GAP!!!

[FBaggins]

60. It's nonsense

The transcript is almost exactly 2,000 words long. Whoever performed this exercise was talking very fast (~180 words per minute). A normal conversational tone is ~125 WPM (which would make the transcript 16 minutes long), but it slows substantially for two participants over a 5,000 mile connection where neither is particularly fluent in the language. 30 minutes is plausible for this transcript.

but other posters are saying that Zalenski is fluent in English.

Also nonsense. He is "fluent" compared to most Americans' third language... but he was quite halting in his speech even when reading from a script yesterday.

This whole thing is based on a common misunderstanding re: how calls are memorialized. People are assuming that this is like Barr's summary of the Mueller report and just reflects the portion that the administration was willing for us to see. That's incorrect. There's no indication that this is anything but the original classified document.