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Rudy Giuliani is running a backchannel with Ukraine to take down Mueller and Trump's critics: report
Published 1 min ago on July 22, 2019 By Matthew Rozsa, Salon
A new report reveals that Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor currently working as President Donald Trump’s lawyer, has established a backchannel with the Ukrainian government in order to dig up dirt on potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, a pair of political operatives who have helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Republican candidates, are instrumental players in Giuliani’s scheme, according to a new report by BuzzFeed News. They have repeatedly met with top political officials in Ukraine and then set up meetings with Giuliani so that the information they obtained could be potentially utilized against Democratic presidential contenders.
BuzzFeed News cited two examples:
The two men urged prosecutors to investigate allegations against Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. And they pushed for a probe into accusations that Ukrainian officials plotted to rig the 2016 election in Hillary Clinton’s favor by leaking evidence against Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chair, in what became a cornerstone of the special counsel’s inquiry.
BuzzFeed News also cited at least one occasion when their work yielded tangible dividends.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/rudy-giuliani-is-running-a-backchannel-with-ukraine-to-take-down-mueller-and-trumps-critics-report/?utm_source=push_notifications
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