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WA/PO: EXCERPT-—Emphasis added):

Anna Makanju, Biden’s senior policy adviser for Ukraine at the time, also listened to the calls and said release of the transcripts would only strengthen Biden’s case that he acted properly. (LOL)

She helped Biden prepare for the conversations and said they operated at a high level, with Biden using language such as Poroshenko’s government being “nation builders for a transformation of Ukraine.” (Cue laugh machine here)

A reference to a private company such as Burisma would be “too fine a level of granularity” for a call between Biden and the president of another country, Makanju told The Fact Checker.

Instead, she said, the conversation focused on Ukraine reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund,
methods to tackle corruption and military assistance. (Just send the entire US Treasury to Ukraine.)

An investigation of “Burisma was just not significant enough” to mention, she said. (ROTFLOL)