Friday, September 27, 2019

Zelensky may have an out

The White House annoyed and embarrassed Ukraine’s president by releasing his comments in a private conversation with President Donald Trump — and may have violated the Ukrainian constitution.

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Ukrainian legal expert Roman Marchenko said if the Ukrainian government didn’t give its approval, the release could have violated constitutional protections of privacy in correspondence and phone calls. “What Trump did (in publishing the rough transcript) is a violation of Ukrainian laws,” Marchenko told The Associated Press.

  Politico


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