Have you read the denials? Sounds link the PM issued more of a "parrot" denial. Or, in other words, a faux-denial. They are fed up, and have had it up to here with Ø.
Here is the first one, from Ø:
“We have seen reports of an alleged POTUS-Netanyahu transcript; neither reports nor alleged transcript bear any resemblance to reality”, the National Security Council tweets. “Shocking and disappointing someone would sink to misrepresenting a pvt convo between POTUS and PM in fabrications to Israeli press”.
A bit later, from the PM's office:
“We have seen reports of an alleged POTUS-Netanyahu transcript; neither reports nor alleged transcript bear any resemblance to reality”, the PM tweeted. “Shocking and disappointing someone would sink to misrepresenting a pvt convo between POTUS and PM in fabrications to Israeli press.”
Oh, I know! I believe the call TOTALLY happened. Both sides are just ‘saving face’.
that is not a denial -
The ‘tweet’ states that the report and the transcript “bear no resemblance to reality.”
Of course not, the transcript and report are not the actual conversation, live and in real time between two human beings - the in fact *are* very different.
It does *not* mean that the statements in the report and transcript were not made.