Interesting when they get hold of the copy of the call that was moved to that codeword-level server. What are the "..." replacing here?The President: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it's very important that you do it if that's possible.
Yeah Nixon released transcripts, too. They also had glaring silences. Those silences contained oceans. And Nixon and crew are fucking Gandalf compared to this shitshow. FUN FACT: Hollywood screenwriting format is highly particular because it has been precisely calibrated such that one page, properly formatted, will equal one minute of screen time. The five-page transcript, as released, uses more generous margins than strunk & white format so it's not a five minute conversation, but it's certainly not thirty. Fukkit. I'ma run it through Final Draft. kk I still know Final Draft. Reformatted into standard Warner Brothers screenplay format, this is a seven page transcript. According to Wikipedia, Zelensky speaks fluent English but I haven't found a video of him doing it in the two minutes I was willing to dedicate to this exercise. So presume there's an interpreter on either side, and double the time. We're at fourteen minutes. Add in another five minutes for mumblings and ramblings and the like. We're at nineteen minutes. Add in another few minutes for protocol and establishing the call. We're still not at our timeframe.