Giuliani pursued shadow Ukraine agenda as key foreign policy officials were sidelined
Source: Washington Post
President Trumps attempt to pressure the leader of Ukraine followed a months-long fight inside the administration that sidelined national security officials and empowered political loyalists including the presidents personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani to exploit the U.S. relationship with Kiev, current and former U.S. officials said.
The sequence, which began early this year, involved the abrupt removal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, the circumvention of senior officials on the National Security Council, and the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid administered by the Defense and State departments all as key officials from these agencies struggled to piece together Giulianis activities from news reports.
Several officials described tense meetings on Ukraine among national security officials at the White House leading up to the presidents phone call on July 25, sessions that led some participants to fear that Trump and those close to him appeared prepared to use U.S. leverage with the new leader of Ukraine for Trumps political gain.
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Rudy he did all of this, one U.S. official said. This s---show that were in its him injecting himself into the process.
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yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)5X
(3,972 posts)bluestarone
(16,976 posts)Wouldn't surprise me. They can try BUT from tRUMPS own lips tell a different story!
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)regardless if Trump explicitly or implicitly told him to do it.
lanlady
(7,134 posts)My head is spinning - it's actually happening - the intel and natsec crowd is exacting revenge on Trump for his siding with Putin against them.
It makes me wonder if Trump will even last out the year.
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)This s---show that were in its him injecting himself into the process.
Mayor Shit Show
wishstar
(5,270 posts)Finally we are learning more details describing the lengths to which Trump and his henchman Giuliani tried to use Ukraine for Trump's personal political gain, even removing our Ukrainian ambassador and keeping NSC officials in the dark about what was going on.
Dan Coates and Sue Gordon leaving DNI and John Bolton resigning from NSC have significance to this scandal.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Hard to believe he was once a U.S. Attorney.