JAKARTA - The role of former Donald Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to force Ukraine to investigate baseless criminal charges against Joe Biden, ahead of the 2020 United States Presidential Election contestation, has been increasingly revealed.
In a 40-minute phone recording obtained by CNN, Giuliani actively asked the Ukrainian Government under President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden's allegations of corruption in Ukraine. To make further announcements regarding this matter.
In the footage, which took place in July 2019, Giuliani spoke with US diplomats Kurt Volker and Andriy Yermak, Zelensky's senior adviser.
Not only about the baseless allegations of corruption, but in the phone call, Giuliani also urged Ukraine to state that it would launch an investigation, related to allegations of Ukraine's involvement in the 2016 US presidential election.
"What we need from President [Zelensky] is to say, I will assign an honest prosecutor, he will investigate and dig up the evidence, which currently exists and is there any other evidence of involvement in the 2016 election, and then the Biden issue has to be worked out", Giuliani said.
This new footage shows how Giuliani aggressively persuaded Ukraine to do Trump's bidding. And it undermines Donald Trump's oft-repeated statement, 'there is no quid pro quo', that Zelensky can gain US Government support if he does political favors for Trump.
This tape could be one of the openings, after years of Trump trying to undermine Biden's name and influence the 2020 Presidential Election process by soliciting foreign interference, lying about voter fraud, culminating in an attack on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. on January 6.
The FBI and US intelligence agencies are currently investigating this footage. In addition, United States intelligence also found the possibility of interference by Russian President Vladimir Putin, to influence the results of the 2020 US Election and win Donald Trump, in a report issued Tuesday, March 16 local time.
In a 15-page report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, several Trump close people are 'playing' with Moscow to substantiate claims made against candidate Joe Biden by Ukrainian figures linked to Russia in the run-up to the November 3 election.
Findings of Putin's role are likely to get special attention from the United States, given the report's conclusion that Russian-backed figures such as Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach listed unnamed US political figures in their campaign to smear Biden and his son Hunter.
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The report named Derkach, who met Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani in 2019, as someone whose movements were tracked, if not directed, by Putin.
"Putin has jurisdiction over the activities of Andriy Derkach", the report said.
Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, began representing Trump in April 2018 in connection with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential Election.
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