White House releases rough transcript of President Trump's first call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky
The congratulatory conversation contained few of the problematic requests that a later July phone call did. But it did show Trump eager to engage Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he would later ask to investigate his political rivals."When you're settled in and ready, 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 in the April call.
Trump never mentions corruption, despite an official White House readout distributed at the time saying Trump expressed a commitment to working together to"root out corruption."And the classification markings reflect a difference in how the April and July calls were handled. The first call was marked"Unclassified" and"for official use only." The second call was classified as"Secret.
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