President Trump suggested he might stop allowing administration officials to listen in on his calls with foreign leaders
President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that he might stop allowing administration officials to listen in on his calls with foreign leaders, musing about scrapping the longstanding practice less than a year after one such phone call kicked off events that led to his impeachment.
Despite Trump’s repeated assertions that the call was “perfect,” it sparked a member of the intelligence community to file a whistleblower complaint, fueling allegations that the president was withholding military aid for Ukraine to pressure Zelensky into announcing the politically charged investigations.
Because of that, despite Trump’s relentless characterization of the document as verbatim transcript, in reality what the public has read of his call with Zelensky is based on the “notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty Officers and NSC policy staff assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place,” according to the White House.
On Thursday, the president blasted Vindman’s move as “insubordinate” and doubled down on his decision to have the officer and his twin brother, a senior ethics lawyer who is also an Army lieutenant colonel, reassigned from the NSC to the Pentagon.
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