The congratulatory phone call occurred three months before the more controversial July 25 call that has sparked the House impeachment inquiry.
The White House releases a memorandum of an April 21 phone call between President Donald Trump and then-Ukrainian President-elect Volodimyr Zelenskiy.
Trump touts the call as "more important" than his controversial July 25 call with Zelenskiy because this one came "first."Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images Trump in the call extended an invitation to bring Zelenskiy to the White House, according to the four-page memo, which notes in a footnote that it is "not a verbatim transcript of a discussion."
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