Washington Post: “Current and former U.S. officials studying the document pointed to several elements that, they say, indicate that the document may have been handled in an unusual way.”
“Those include the use of ellipses — punctuation indicating that information has been deleted for clarity or other reasons — that traditionally have not appeared in summaries of presidential calls with foreign leaders.”
“In two of the cases when ellipses were used, they accompanied Trump’s reference to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is at the center of a conservative conspiracy theory about a computer server central to the company’s investigation of the Russian hack of Democratic Party computers that, according to those pushing the theory, is hidden away in Ukraine.”
“The use of ellipses in this passage fueled questions about what may have been removed and why.”
