The so - forebode “ transcript ” of a July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart serves as a poignant monitor of how ludicrous conspiracy hypothesis — even ones widely and thoroughly expose for many years — have amount to influence daily life in the Oval Office .
The White House unfreeze the “ transcript”—which is , in realness , a series of compiled distinction without independent verification — following the promulgation of a House impeachment interrogation on Tuesday . The inquiry was incite by a controversial whistle blower complaint in which an anonymous news functionary allege Trump threatened to withhold $ 400 million in military and security aid from Ukraine unless the land opened an investigating into his 2020 rival , former Vice President Joe Biden , and his son , Hunter .
But Trump ’s give-and-take with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also contains a act of outre references to a calculator waiter and cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike , the company the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) enlisted to investigate the onrush on its servers by Russian hacking chemical group Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear in 2016 . At one gunpoint , Trump even appears to evoke that “ the waiter ” itself is being stored in Ukraine .
Displayed on a monitor, U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters on 30 November 2024 in New York City.Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty
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“ I would like you to do us a favor though because our commonwealth has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a pile about it , ” Trump reportedly say on the call to Zelensky . “ I would like you to recover out what happened with this whole billet with Ukraine , they say Crowdstrike … I judge you have one of your moneyed masses … The server , they say Ukraine has it . ” ( The ellipses in the conjecture transcript are part of the text release by the White House . It ’s unreadable whether they point a interruption in the President of the United States ’s speech or that text has been removed . )
Since 2017 , Trump has repeatedly take that there is a “ missing ” DNC server , as if to incriminate there ’s some sort of covering - up underway . But not only is there no host missing , the fire did not involve just a single “ server . ” As theDaily Beastreported over a year ago :
The “ server ” Trump is obsessed with is actually 140 server , most of them cloud - based , which the DNC was forced to decommission in June 2016 while trying to rid its web of the Russian GRU officers working to help Trump win the election , consort to the figures in the DNC ’s polite lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign .
Being notably inept when it comes to basically all forms of engineering science , Trump has for years tried to make hay of the fact the DNC did n’t turn over its host to the FBI . But as any expert in computer forensics knows — and the president has 17 intelligence agencies he could call to ask about this — physical access to the computer hardware is only otiose . Instead , what forensic investigators do and have done essentially always is make exact copy of the hard ride called “ images ” to inspect . Unplugging a server to physically move it ( again , totally pointless ) would only lead to likely datum loss in the machine ’s store .
Aside from Trump ’s apparent confusion about how cloud computing works , his source to a “ wealthy ” Ukrainian likely stems from his own mistaken belief that CrowdStrike is owned by a Ukrainian billionaire . Trumptoldthe Associated Press in June 2017 : “ I heard it ’s owned by a very robust Ukrainian , that ’s what I heard . ” The AP did n’t crusade back on the claim at the meter , but it is inaccurate .
Trump ’s confusion likely originates with a series of 2017 intelligence articles that play up CrowdStrike co - founder Dmitri Alperovitch ’s purpose as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council . The Washington , D.C.-based think tank is funded in part by various government agencies , include the U.S. State Department , but has also received financing from Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk . ( Alperovitch was himself bear in Moscow , but immigrated to the U.S. after the U.S.S.R. collapse . )
Ironically , the New York Timesreportedlast year that Pinchuk had donate $ 150,000 to President Trump ’s foundation in 2015 in commutation for a 20 - minute chat with the would - be president .
CrowdStrike did not reply to a request for comment , but a elderly official at the companytold Motherboardtoday , when ask why Trump note the company during the call , “ I pose nothing . ”
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— Kevin Collier ( @kevincollier)September 25 , 2019
What ’s remarkable about the Zelensky call is that it appear to show that Trump is not only spreading disinformation about the probe into Russia hacking in 2016 , but that he also seems to believe at least some of what he ’s saying . His comment to Zelensky obviously were n’t tweet crafted to disparage Democrats or fire up his supporters , but are instead part of a individual earpiece conversation that , one take over , he never intended to make public .
Despite , again , hold over XII intelligence agencies at his disposal ( not to bring up all of the public reportage on this discipline over the past two years ) horn seems to truly believe there ’s some missing server floating around in the world somewhere and that CrowdStrike — which is headquarter in California , by the way — is a company controlled by some Ukrainian oligarch whose name he ca n’t think , despite having spend actual font - fourth dimension with the military man .
Whatever else these so - called copy show , they talk to at least one truth : The chairperson is a big dumb green idiot .
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