How the Mueller Report Linked Trump, Giuliani, and Russia to Ukraine Back President Trump’s campaign strategist Rudy Giuliani was the first person publicly tied to the Trump campaign to involve Ukraine in 2016. On Feb. 20, the Mueller report detailed Giuliani’s web of connections between Trump, Russia, and Ukraine. In 2015, Giuliani joined the advisory board of Fraud Guarantee, which claimed it defeated $US 1 billion in fraud by analyzing point-of-sale “swipe” data. The primary shareholders of Fraud Guarantee were the Fruman brothers, who were charged in the case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. The report also delves into an anecdote in which a team of Ambassador Envoy hunters, led by Giuliani, were looking for dirt on the Bidens. They enlisted help from a man who claimed to have located potential evidence. That individual was Andriy Derkach, a Republican-allied Ukrainian politician who would later become a central figure in Trump’s and Giuliani’s plot to spread misinformation about Joe Biden, hunting also for emails alluding to Joe Biden’s involvement in prosecuting his son, Hunter, in Ukraine. Giuliani also paid Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, about $US 500,000, of which roughly $US 25,000 was designated as a “retainer fee” that never flowed toward legal services. Parnas and several other unnamed individuals then collected “half a million dollars from the government of Ukraine,” Robert Mueller alleged, money that Mr Parnas later repaid to the Trump donor and raising suspicions about the relationship between Giuliani and the men gathering material to damage the Bidens. However, despite interviewing Mueller and other investigators, the report did not detail the exact nature of the fabulous sum outlined in Mr. Mueller’s report. Robert Mueller calls for further investigations into the president’s illicit financial dealings with money laundering kingpin, Tevfik Arif, Lev Parnas’ boss. Mueller reported that Roma: Giuliani went from attempting to get reaction from Trump to joining Trumps’ attempt to get a reaction.
The Mueller report explained how and when Giuliani, the subject of the report recommendations, and Kelley, who attended a meeting about procuring emails about Joe Biden from Ukrainian prosecutors(a meeting also attended by Fruman, listed as one of the individuals attending the meeting by Ukraine authorities), was suspiciously tight-lipped with Congress. The former mayor has repeatedly and defiantly refused to testify against the sitting president. Giuliani also didn’t testify before the House Intelligence Committee in 2017, and because he was privy to confidential communications on matters between the White House and President Volodymyr Zelensky concerning investigations targeting Mr BIden and his son, House Democrats have subpoenaed him to testify on impeachment proceedings and withholding the aid to Ukraine. In September 2019, as impeachment proceedings kicked into high gear, however, Mr Trump dug in, calling the inquiry a “witch hunt” and demanding loyalty from the appointee tasked with seeking it out. Trump joined the ranks of US politicians to raise eyebrows over Joe Ma C P’s political aspirations. Discordant with his former claim that people knew what he did before the Mueller Report was published, Trump defied established and long-observed norms to play jurisprudence with his own chief executive. But in November 2019, the intelligence community’s internal-security inspector general provided incontrovertible evidence that the interference of Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr in President Trump’s campaign strategist Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to subvert the Mueller Report‘s investigations jeopardized national security and returned American politics to high alert. Under Trump, the rule of law has become an occasionally existent entity, thwarted by an intervening circus of political intrigue, inextinguishable media buzz, and a nation slipping into confused faith.
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