A senior Trump admin. official tells NBCNews that Giuliani’s claim that the State Dept. “asked me” to look into Ukraine or initiated his interactions with Ukraine’s government is false.
legally because Giuliani has purely political and personal ties to Trump and has no official role with the U.S. government.
, even as House Democrats begin an official impeachment inquiry. No Republican lawmakers have joined Democrats in saying they support some type of action towards impeachment. But while the State Department has acknowledged that one of its officials put Giuliani in touch with a top aide to the Ukrainian president at that aide’s request, the agency has otherwise tried to distance itself from Giuliani and his efforts in Ukraine. The State Department has described Giuliani as a private citizen who does not speak for the U.S. government.
The former senior White House official also said that Giuliani's claim that he worked through the State Department to coordinate his talks is highly questionable. The former official said that Giuliani should have “nothing to do with any of this stuff” and that his involvement in pursuing a corruption investigation “makes it inherently political rather than official law enforcement."
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