This is rather amazing:
If Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is to be believed, the U.S. State Department aided his efforts to pressure a foreign government to dig up dirt on Trump’s political enemies, according to a report from ABC News on Thursday.
Giuliani claimed the State Department put Ukrainian official Andriy Yermak “in contact with me.” Giuliani insisted it was the State Department that helped him reach out to Yermak, “Not the other way around.”
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Giuliani was trying to persuade Ukrainian prosecutors to dig up dirt to use against both the Democratic National Committee and former Vice President Joe Biden. The entire effort was intended to help Trump’s 2020 election effort, according to a May report from the New York Times.
Later that month, Giuliani was forced to cancel a planned trip to the Ukraine where he had planned on more collusion.
“This is the first instance of which I am aware in which a private lawyer for the president of the United States has, in his own words, ‘meddled’ in a foreign criminal investigation of a third party in order to politically benefit the president,” Tim Meyer, an international law expert at Vanderbilt University, told the Washington Post in May. “Mr. Giuliani’s actions undermine the long-standing U.S. foreign policy of promoting the rule of law in Ukraine generally and in the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office specifically.”
Of course we can’t expect the “Justice” Department to do anything about this, but it would seem to me that a public confession of criminal activity ought to be sufficient grounds for New York State to disbar him. Clinton lost his license to practice for far less. It’s imperative that state and local officials step into the breach now that the “Justice” Department has become fully politicized. Disbarment isn’t jail, but it’s something.
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