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BY RACHEL FRAZIN - 09/28/19 08:33 AM EDT
President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said Friday he wouldn't testify for House Democrats' impeachment inquiry without consulting his client ...
Giuliani .. told CNN that the work he does for the president would be protected by attorney-client privilege ...
He added that he had not discussed possibly testifying with Trump.
The former New York City mayor also told CNN that he did not hear from committees looking into Trump's discussions with Ukrainian leaders and reportedly laughed when asked if he was worried the House would subpoena him ...
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/463490-giuliani-calls-house-democrats-a-joke-says-hell-consult-trump
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In March 2018, Rudy Giuliani met in Manhattan with a delegation of lawmakers from Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million in eastern Ukraine. Giuliani, who joined President Donald Trumps legal team a few weeks later, was at this gathering because, Giuliani says, his security firm agreed in 2017 to help the city improve its emergency services and seek foreign investment.
But the deal had a murkier element. Giuliani later conceded that he wasnt just working for Kharkiv and that for at least some of the work he was paid by Pavel Fuks, a Kharkiv-born business executive who became a prominent real estate developer in Moscow in the 2000s and who has said that he negotiated directly with Trump between 2004 and 2010 about building a Trump-branded tower in Moscow. Fuks was one of several Ukrainians with Russian ties whose attendance at Trumps presidential inauguration was investigated by former special counsel Robert Mueller. So at the start of Trumps presidency, Giuliani was hobnobbing with at least one Ukrainian player who would be tainted by scandal.
Giulianis dealings in Ukraine exploded into public view this month, with the revelation that Trump pressured the countrys new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to work with Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and information to discredit Muellers probe. A complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower that triggered this new Trump scandal depicted Giuliani as a Trump henchman prowling Ukraine for negative material Trump could use against Biden. But the former New York mayors involvement in Ukraine and other former Soviet bloc countries has been more extensive and even more sketchy than these disclosures indicate.
The New York meeting and an earlier trip Giuliani trip took to Kharkiv in November 2017 were arranged by TriGlobal Strategic Ventures, the firm says on its website. TriGlobal, which claims to have offices in New York, Moscow, and Kiev, sells itself as an international business consultancy that does public relations work for clients in Russia and Ukraine. The firm also brags that it has worked with Giuliani since 2004, arranging trips for him to former Soviet states. Last October, Giuliani took a break from his work representing Trump to speak about cybersecurity at a conference TriGlobal organized in Armenia to promote a Russia-led economic bloc, the Eurasian Economic Union. Giuliani appeared at the event alongside a Russian official, Sergey Glazyev, who was sanctioned in March 2014 for his role in the annexation of Crimea and who has been accused of advancing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Ukraine, an accusation hes denied. Giuliani was reportedly invited to a conference by Russian Armenian multimillionaire Ara Abramyan, a member of TriGlobals board, who reportedly suggested at the time that he expected Giuliani to deliver a message for him to Trump ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/rudy-giuliani-has-a-long-shady-history-with-ukraine/
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(118,271 posts)By HAL BOEDEKER
ORLANDO SENTINEL |
SEP 28, 2019 | 7:33 AM
How wise is it to put Rudy Giuliani on television as an impeachment probe takes off?
Well learn Sunday morning. Giuliani, the presidents personal attorney, will be a guest on CBS Face the Nation, ABCs This Week and Fox News Channels Sunday Morning Futures ...
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv-guy/os-et-rudy-giuliani-stephen-miller-sunday-shows-20190928-jiec7eg7pbatbmm27ny37ihw6q-story.html
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(118,271 posts)By Cristina Cabrera
September 28, 2019 10:47 am
... The ambassador connected Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trumps personal lawyer, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskys top aide amid Trump and Giulianis pressure campaign to get Ukraine to investigate Trumps 2020 rival, Joe Biden.
The State Department had distanced itself from Giulianis role in the pressure campaign, stating that Volker had connected Giuliani to Ukraine at the Ukrainian governments request and that Giuliani is a private citizen who does not speak for the U.S. government.
However, Giuliani has repeatedly insisted he meet with the aide at the State Departments request and has gone on multiple cable news programs to profess his innocence in the debacle. He even posted his exchange with Volker on Twitter to prove that the State Department had requested him to work with the Ukrainian government ...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ukraine-ambassador-kurt-volker-resign
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(118,271 posts)Ronald J. Hansen, Arizona Republic
Published 4:31 p.m. MT Sept. 27, 2019
Updated 4:53 p.m. MT Sept. 27, 2019
... Rudy Giuliani took to Fox News and Twitter with screenshots of multiple text conversations that he said shows an effort by Kurt Volker and others to put him in touch with people surrounding Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was elected in May ...
A whistleblower complaint suggests Volker tried to handle damage control after Trump's July 25 phone call with Zelensky. According to notes from that call provided by the White House, Trump pressed Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son. That happened as Trump held up $400 million in military aid to Ukraine ...
"Volker and Sondland congratulated me for what I was doing," Giuliani told Fox News. Volker "should step forward and explain what he did. The whistleblower falsely alleges that I was operating on my own. Well, I wasn't operating on my own. ... They basically knew everything I was doing" ...
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/09/27/rudy-giuliani-mccain-institute-kurt-volker-wanted-him-involved-ukraine/3789206002/
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(118,271 posts)the head of the McCain Institute wanted me to! So I can claim lawyer-client privilege and executive privilege plus national security secrets privilege for everything!"
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