.MaddowBlog: To assist Pres. Trump, Rudy Giuliani says a bit too much about a foreign scheme.
Rudy Giuliani is ostensibly one of Donald Trump’s most prominent allies, though the former New York City Mayor tends to cause more trouble for the president than he resolves.Giuliani, one of Trump’s personal lawyers, was interviewed by CNN’s Chris Cuomo, and the host asked Giuliani whether he asked Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. “No,” the Republican replied. “Actually, I didn’t.” CUOMO: So, you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden?GIULIANI: No.
As regular readers may recall, the New York Times published a curious article in May, raising questions about Biden’s work several years ago on a government-reform effort in Ukraine. There was some suggestion that the Delaware Democrat’s son may have benefited, but the claims of possible wrongdoing quickly unraveled, and the story went largely overlooked.
According to the reporting, Giuliani was encouraging Ukraine to launch investigations intended to help Trump’s re-election campaign. It was a rather striking revelation in its own right: one of the American president’s lawyers appeared to be pressuring a foreign government to assist with a political scheme intended to help the American president stay in power.
Four months later, Giuliani was interviewed on CNN and appeared to say he did, in fact, ask Ukraine to investigate Biden.
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