Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said he “would be unhappy” if the White House intentionally tried to hide the documentation of President Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The hotly debated phone call from July 25 led to a whistleblower filing a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general alleging Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate 2020 presidential favorite Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The complaint, which was submitted on Aug. 12, was released Thursday morning.
According to the complaint, White House officials “were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call. They told me that there was already a ‘discussion ongoing’ with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials’ retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain.”
The whistleblower’s complaint also alleged that the White House took additional steps to hide the transcript of the phone call.
“Senior White House officials had intervened to ‘lock down’ all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced — as is customary — by the White House Situation Room,” it went on.
Johnson expressed his concern over the allegation that the White House tried to suppress it.
“I would not be happy. We’ll find out exactly what transpired here. To me, of all this stuff, that’s the part that concerns me,” Johnson said, according to Politico. “I’ve been around the president enough [the call summary] is just classic Trump.”
“I was led to believe [that summary] was all that’s available,” he added. “I would be a little upset to find out there’s a completely verbatim one.”
