The US president's personal attorney says that the US State Dept. assisted his efforts to press the Ukrainian government to investigate two prominent Democratic opponents of the president. - akarl_smith
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani confirmed Thursday that the State Department assisted his efforts to press the Ukrainian government to probe two prominent Democratic opponents of the president: former Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee.
Giuliani has spoken with Ukrainian official Andriy Yermak, a lawyer and close ally of recently elected President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the phone and in an in-person meeting in Madrid over the last few weeks to encourage him to ramp up probes into the matters,Trump's attorney confirmed to NBC News that the State Department helped put him in touch with Yermak.
The State Department put Yermak"in contact with me," Giuliani said."Not other way around, and I told him they should not be cowered [out of] fully investigating serious possible crimes like bribery, extortion, fraud, money laundering and illegal interference in 2016 election."Giuliani declined to say whether he spoke with Trump about any recent developments in his Ukrainian venture.
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