Giuliani Associates Urged Ukraine's Prior President to Open Biden, Election Probes

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WSJ: Giuliani Associates Urged Ukraine’s Prior President to Open Biden, Election Probes, all the way back in February.

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WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE POLITICS
Giuliani Associates Urged Ukraine’s Prior President to Open Biden, Election Probes
Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman pushed then-president Poroshenko to announce probes in return for U.S. state visit

By Rebecca Ballhaus and Alan Cullison in Washington and Brett Forrest in Kyiv
Updated Nov. 8, 2019 6:28 pm ET

Months before President Trump pressed Ukraine’s newly installed leader to investigate Joe Biden’s son and allegations of interference in the 2016 U.S. election, two associates of Rudy Giuliani urged the prior Ukrainian president to announce similar probes in exchange for a state visit to Washington, according to people familiar with the matter.

A late February meeting in Kyiv between Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko took place at the offices of Ukrainian general prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko, the people said. It came soon after Messrs. Parnas and Fruman met with Mr. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, and Mr. Lutsenko in New York in late January and again in Warsaw in mid-February, Mr. Giuliani has said.

Mr. Lutsenko also attended the late February meeting, the people said. Mr. Poroshenko didn’t ultimately announce that he was opening those investigations. Mr. Lutsenko, the prosecutor, gave an interview to the Hill in March in which he said he was opening an investigation into alleged interference by Ukrainians in the 2016 U.S. election. He also said he had evidence he wanted to present to the U.S. Justice Department related to former Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma Group, a Ukrainian gas company where Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, was a director. Two months later, in an interview with Bloomberg, Mr. Lutsenko said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens.
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—Thomas Grove in Kyiv contributed to this article.

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1. The key one, and first quid pro quo, was getting Poroshenko to

kill the Manafort investigation in Ukraine.

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3. BREAKING news, rump seen shooting a crowd of 4 yr old children of color

on 5th street.

Rump supporter asked about it said "well, what did that crowd of 4 yr old children do? maybe they deserved it!"



(I tried it first by saying twenty three 4 yr old children but that is confusing)

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4. Aka Squirrel !!!

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2. Mobsters, killers, scum...pretty much all rump supporters are this now.

America has a decision, fascism or no fascism.

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5. More bribery impeachment counts