A Veteran Reporter Helped Giuliani's Associates Launch the Ukraine Conspiracy
Oct 27, 2019
A Veteran Reporter Helped Giuliani's Associates Launch the Ukraine Conspiracy
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Last March, a veteran Washington reporter taped an interview with a Ukrainian prosecutor that sparked a disinformation campaign alleging Joe Biden pressured Ukrainians into removing a prosecutor investigating a company because of its ties to the former vice president’s son. The interview and subsequent columns, conducted and written by a writer for The Hill newspaper, John Solomon, were the starting gun that eventually set off the impeachment inquiry into the president.
Watching from the control booth of The Hill’s TV studio was Lev Parnas, who helped arrange the interview.
Parnas and his partner Igor Fruman were working with the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to promote a story that it was Democrats and not Republicans who colluded with a foreign power in the 2016 election. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan indicted the duo this month on allegations that they illegally funneled foreign money into U.S. political campaigns.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-a-veteran-reporter-helped-giulianis-associates-launch-the-ukraine-conspiracy/
