Whistleblower says U.S. envoy scrambled to contain Giuliani's damage to national security
WASHINGTON — To hear Rudy Giuliani tell it, it was a phone call from the Trump administration's special envoy for Ukraine, Ambassador Kurt Volker, that jump-started Giuliani's contacts with Ukraine's new leaders over corruption and a possible investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
But a whistleblower's complaint made public Thursday paints a different picture: One of Volker scrambling to "contain the damage" to national security inflicted by Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, and back-channeling with the Ukrainian leadership about how to navigate the conflicting messages that Giuliani and U.S. officials were sending.
Nonsense," a defiant Giuliani told NBC News in an interview Thursday after the complaint was made public. "It's a provable lie."
Volker, President Trump's special representative for Ukraine negotiations, has mostly stayed under the radar since taking the job in 2017. But his unusual arrangement as Trump’s special representative for Ukraine negotiations is attracting new attention amid revelations of his central role in the ongoing Ukraine saga.
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