BREAKING: Trump’s transcript of his first call with Ukrainian president RELEASED

The White House has just released the transcript of Trump’s first phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky so that the American people can see it for themselves. As you will note, there is nothing controversial about the phone call whatsoever:

CNBC – The White House on Friday released a memorandum of an April 21 phone call between President Donald Trump and then-Ukrainian President-elect Volodimyr Zelenskiy.

Trump in the call extended an invitation to bring Zelenskiy to the White House, according to the four-page memo, which notes in a footnote that it is “not a verbatim transcript of a discussion.”

“I’d like to invite you to the White House. We’ll have a lot of things to talk about, but we’re with you all the way,” Trump said.

The conversation was 16 minutes long, according to the memo.

The U.S. president also told Zelenskiy “When I owned Miss Universe, they always had great people. Ukraine was always very well represented.” Trump owned the beauty pageant from 1996 to 2015.

The congratulatory phone call, which occurred three months before the more controversial July 25 call, adds yet another layer to the record of communications between the White House and the government of Ukraine.

According to U.S. diplomats who have testified to House investigators about the call, it was arranged so that Trump could congratulate the newly elected Zelenskiy on his victory, a fairly standard practice among leaders of allied countries.

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified last month that, while the White House did not release a summary of the call, it was largely uneventful. “It was a good call,” it was brief, and Trump and Zelenskiy “hit it off,” Yovanovitch said she was told.

It’s nothing more than a congratulatory phone call for Zelinsky’s victory.

You can read the full phone call below, which was also just read by Devin Nunes in today’s phony impeachment hearing:


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