Today the White House released the memo for a call alleged to be the subject of a whistleblower complaint involving President Donald Trump.

The White House also released something else – their own talking points about the memo.

BuzzFeed deputy director of breaking news David Mack wrote on Twitter that the White House accidentally emailed its own talking points to Democrats, then attempted to recall the message.

The talking points, which Mack posted here, have a few familiar themes, specifically that Trump was acting properly during the call and press reports about the incident are false.

Speaking of inaccuracies, though, the White House’s talking points have a few.

We’ll get to that, but a word first about the memo, which has also been described as a transcript. It contains a disclaimer that it isn’t “a verbatim transcript,” and because it could contain errors or omissions, the document should be taken with a grain of salt.

Did Trump mention U.S. aid to Ukraine during the call?

The White House’s talking points say that Trump never mentioned aid to Ukraine, then acknowledge that he did, but only in order to bring up that other countries “need to do their fair share” to help Ukraine.

This connects to the administration’s claim that there was no quid pro quo exchange with Ukraine in order to compel the country to look into former Vice President Joe Biden and the business dealings of his son, Hunter.

The memo doesn’t explicitly detail an arrangement where the United States would give Ukraine something in exchange for Trump’s investigation requests. But The Washington Post reported that at least a week before the call, Trump instructed Mick Mulvaney, his acting chief of staff, to withhold from Ukraine about $400 million in military aid. The Office of Management and Budget released the funds about two months later, but Democrats like Sen. Robert Menendez (New Jersey) have speculated that the aid debacle amounts to potential extortion.

Did Trump urge Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, to investigate allegations that Biden ensured a Ukrainian prosecutor would be fired in order to protect his son?

The White House’s talking points claim this is false, but the memo shows Trump suggesting Zelensky speak with Giuliani in connection with the Biden allegations.

According to the memo, Trump brought up the prosecutor’s firing, claiming, “A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved.” Trump then brought up Giuliani, saying, “If you could speak to him, that would be great.”

Trump said multiple times he would tell Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to call Zelensky, adding: “The other thing: There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, … It sounds horrible to me.”

Was deep state involved in the whistleblower complaint?

The White House’s talking points allege multiple times that the deep state is connected to the complaint and its emergence as a news story. Deep state refers to a conspiracy theory that U.S. intelligence agencies are out to get Trump and conservatives, among other things.

Did the government handle the whistleblower complaint “absolutely by the book”?

The White House claims that it has followed the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, specifically in its decision not to provide the complaint to Congress. The argument goes that the law doesn’t apply to the executive branch, so the director of national intelligence doesn’t have to give it to Congress.

The law doesn’t explicitly say presidents are immune from whistleblower complaints. It requires that complaints that the intelligence community inspector general deems credible and urgent should go to the director of national intelligence, who must provide it to Congress within seven days. That’s not what happened.

Contact Big If True editor Mollie Bryant at 405-990-0988 or bryant@bigiftrue.org. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

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