Asked about the discrepancy between the April readout of Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian President and the rough transcript released Friday, the White House placed the responsibility on the top Ukraine expert at the NSC: Lt. Col. Alex Vindman
The President also ignored directives from his National Security Council staff to bring up corruption during his first call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, despite the White House's claim that fighting corruption was his primary reason for withholding the military aid, CNN has learned.In that transcript, there is no mention of corruption despite a White House readout of the call that was released in April that stated the issue arose.
For more than 10 hours, Vindman testified that he reported concerns about Trump's July 25 call with the leader of Ukraine to the top National Security Council lawyer within hours, and said some of the changes he tried to make to the since-published transcript were left out, though he didn't say why. Later, he was told not to discuss the call with anyone else.
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