Giuliani was warned that Ukrainian claims of Bidens' misconduct were not credible

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post



The former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told House investigators on Thursday that he warned President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, that Giuliani was receiving untrustworthy information from Ukrainian political figures about former vice president Joe Biden and his son, according to two people familiar with his testimony.

Kurt Volker, who resigned last week after being named in a whistleblower complaint that sparked the House impeachment inquiry of Trump, said he tried to caution Guiliani that his sources, including Ukraine’s former top prosecutor, were unreliable and that he should be careful about putting faith in the prosecutor’s stories, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the closed door meeting.

Volker’s testimony offers the first inside account of the Trump administration’s efforts to press for a Ukrainian investigation into Trump’s political rival. At the heart of this effort is Giuliani’s contention that, as vice president, Biden pushed for the firing of Ukraine’s former prosector general, Viktor Shokin, as part of a corrupt plot to halt investigations into a Ukrainian natural gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter.

Joe Biden has denied the accusation, and foreign policy experts have pointed out that Biden’s push to remove Shokin was part of a broader international effort that included the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, where leaders viewed Shokin as an inept. Volker also said that he and other State Department officials cautioned the Ukrainians to steer clear of U.S. politics. Getting involved, he said he told them, would open the nation up to allegations that they were interfering in an election and could be detrimental to Ukraine long-term, according to these two individuals

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/this-is-when-the-inquiry-gets-real-former-us-special-envoy-to-ukraine-testifies-in-impeachment-probe-today/2019/10/03/51365c1b-5a01-4e44-872a-299b67949a5e_story.html

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Full headline: Giuliani was warned that Ukrainian claims of Bidens’ misconduct were not credible, Trump’s ex-envoy tells lawmakers

[Midnight Writer]

1. And Trump was warned not to look directly at a solar eclipse. Just spurred him on.

[maxsolomon]

2. they don't care if it's true.

they just want a story.

[SergeStorms]

7. That's it in a nutshell.

Republicans have never cared about truth and honesty, they just want red-meat lies they can throw to their disgusting base, who'll believe anything they tell them.

[H2O Man]

3. Recommended.

Thank you for this.

[trueblue2007]

4. I. HATE RUDY "GHOULIANI" .....

[BadGimp]

5. You don't say ...

[hibbing]

6. Biden's son is the new what about her emails?

This will be the exact same thing, you will hear it over and over and over and over. If he is the nominee it will be the first question to him in the debate. It will probably be the first question in the next Democratic debate. I can see it playing out the same exact way.


Peace

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Yup.

[Laurian]

9. If someone else is the nominee, they'll find a contentious issue about them to dwell on.

It’s not us, it’s them. They’re shameless.

F*ck them. I refuse to let them determine how we choose a leader.

[eilen]

10. From The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/464281-volker-warned-giulianis-information-on-ukr

"The report came shortly after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one of Trump’s staunchest allies in the House, told reporters outside the closed-door session that “nothing he has said supports the narrative you’ve been hearing from [House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam] Schiff [D-Calif.] and the Democrats.”

The report comes the same day Volker provided encrypted texts to Congress with Kiev chargé d'affaires Bill Taylor in which Taylor reportedly told other diplomats "it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign” even as the White House has denied it made the aid contingent on Ukraine launching an investigation."


Bwhaaahahahha. Really Gym??? Did you listen with your ears?