Giuliani: State Department official should 'step forward,' 'I wasn't operating on my own'
Source: The Hill
President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Thursday called on Kurt Volker, the U.S. Special Representative to Ukraine, and other State Department officials to say that they directed Giuliani to meet with Ukrainian officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint released Thursday on Trump and Giulianis contacts with Ukraine.
Giuliani appeared to share text messages from Volker in an appearance on Fox News Thursday night. One encouraged Giuliani to call him to brief you more about [Ukrainian president Volodymyr] Zelensky dynamic, and another connected Giuliani with Andrey Yermak, a Zelensky aide.
He should step forward and explain what he did, Giuliani told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. The whistleblower falsely alleges that I was operating on my own. Well, I wasnt operating on my own.
I went to meet Mr. Zelenskys aide at the request of the State Department, Giuliani continued.
Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/463340-giuliani-state-department-official-should-step-forward-i-wasnt
Smart enough not to be the patsy?
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)Don't worry Rudy, there's plenty of room under the bus
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)What happened to Giuliani's evidence???
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Volker is just an unpaid, volunteer, "special US representative" to the Ukraine.
Volker is ALSO a paid DC lobbyist at the BGR group, among other things.
So the guy Rudy is holding up as "proof" that he was taking directions from the State department is a DC lobbyist.
Curiously, his page at the BGR site doesn't mention that he's a volunteer special assistant anything with the State Department.
And his State Department page doesn't mention that he's CURRENTLY a lobbyist with BGR.
HIS BGR bio:
http://bgrdc.com/b/bio/30/Ambassador-Kurt-Volker?fbclid=IwAR2sF5fdpSuwo7N-tc3MDHXSJGduoRTnDLxpeZu_BHh0DgWHe3B7mnpqrcA
Ambassador Kurt Volker provides strategic advice to BGR on a full range of international issues. He previously served as Managing Director, International, for BGR in 2011-2012.
A former career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, he had more than 23 years of experience working on European policy under five presidential administrations. He served as Ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2009, straddling the transition from the Bush to the Obama administrations.
From July 2005 to June 2008, Ambassador Volker served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
SNIP
HIS STATE BIO:
https://www.state.gov/biographies/kurt-volker/
Ambassador Kurt Volker is a leading expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities. Ambassador Volker serves as Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University based in Washington, DC. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies, a Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council, and a Trustee of IAU College in Aix-en-Provence, France. He is a consultant to international business, a member of the Board of Directors of CG Funds Trust, and had previously served as Managing Director, International, for BGR Group. He has taught Transatlantic Relations at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. In July, 2017, Secretary of State Tillerson appointed Ambassador Volker as U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Who directed the State Department to lean on Ukraine to fabricate crap against tRump political opponent? Pompeo? Barr?
It's all a coverup. Once Giuliani got his fig leaf cover letter, he was free to tell Zelensky "Nice little country you got there. Shame if we let Putin eat another chunk."
htuttle
(23,738 posts)...so someone should charge him with violating it.
smb
(3,452 posts)They can't lock him up; he'd just turn into a bat and fly between the bars.
atreides1
(16,046 posts)But it won't be anyone from the current DOJ!!!!
C_U_L8R
(44,894 posts)I don't see a rush of defenders. Corrupt Rudy is having a Wily Coyote Ran Off The Cliff moment.
Baitball Blogger
(46,575 posts)Bet it was Trump since it seems to be a pattern of his to ask people to call on his people.
Siwsan
(26,177 posts)Admittedly, I'm not the most technically savvy individual, but how secure can that be??
tblue37
(64,980 posts)He showed a second one, too.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)Volker serves in a "volunteer capacity" as a Special Representative for Ukraine but his real job is executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
canetoad
(17,088 posts)'As discussed' - at breakfast. Doesn't say who instigated the discussion.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)brooklynite
(93,858 posts)They write stories about politics. Too many people are unhappy because some stories aren't 100% supportive of their political view.
POLITICO did a major reveal of the corruption of Jerry Falwell Jr. at Liberty University, but of course they're "pro-Trump" because they run factually true stories about issues regarding the candidate of your choice.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)brooklynite
(93,858 posts)Nevermypresident
(781 posts)Lulu KC
(2,547 posts)I found it a little odd.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)beastie boy
(9,060 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)How many traitors are in this administration? Any honest people had better come forward - PRONTO - before they are accused of wrongdoing. So, Kushner, Ivanka and Rudy operate globally without security clearances? Talk about the "gang who couldn't shoot straight" Seems none of them know exactly what they are doing, except that other people have to take the blame when the doo doo hits the windmill. Yet, here comes the gop with every excuse under the sun, to cover their orange mistake with a cloak of innocence in all of this. What happened to this country?
durablend
(7,416 posts)How many *aren't* traitors? That'd wittle the list down to just a handful (if even that)
Javaman
(62,439 posts)all of them. either willing or unwilling.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So sad.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)like a typical repuke; something is only a problem when it happens to him. now, suddenly, he's willing to take everyone down to save his own skin.
a den of thieves.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)at how stupid this man is. He once was attorney general of New York, so I'm assuming he does know the law. Yet he is so careless and reckless in public, making himself an easy target for any zealous prosecutor or even a simple "country lawyer". He sounds really scared now. Did he really not know that this day was coming?
brooklynite
(93,858 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)"Giuliani served as United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983. That year he became the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, holding the position until 1989." Wikipedia
I'm sorry, I should have said Associate Attorney General. My point though was he clearly should know the law well enough, to realize he was heading off a cliff.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)Keep pointing your sorry little finger on your very small hands
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)I can see Rudy lying through his teeth about State asking him to go when he really went at the behest of the President.
I can see the Trump State Dept sending him, just cuz it has been taken over by incompetents and apparatchiks.
SunSeeker
(51,369 posts)duforsure
(11,882 posts)Then I'll listen to this idiot.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)On Fox News you held up your phone and said the proof is all right here. So - show us the proof.