A record of the now infamous call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was reportedly kept on a top secret server intended only for the most sensitive material.
A former senior White House Situation Room official has warned that President Donald Trump must not use top secret national intelligence infrastructure to hide his own crimes or embarrassment, as more details of the"Ukrainegate" scandal emerge.
The whistleblower complaint has now snowballed into an impeachment investigation against the president, with Democrats keen to uncover any suggestion that Trump solicited a foreign nation to interfere in the 2020 race. "I can't think of a time when a presidential transcript [of a] phone call was released other than in some archival historical sense, years and years and years later," he explained."So on one level you have to give Trump credit for putting it out there!"
"It would be totally inappropriate to put something in there just because you want to restrict its handling...to protect the president from either conduct of illegal behavior, unethical behavior, or out of embarrassment," Pfeiffer explained. "I think they released a pretty darn complete transcript, with the exception of editing to make the language flow more smoothly and make them sound more elegant."
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