Rudy Giuliani’s role is the deepest, darkest cesspool in the Ukraine scandal, writes jonathanchait
Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images In May of 2019, President Trump held an Oval Office meeting in which he tried to enlist National Security Adviser John Bolton in his plot to enlist Ukraine to smear his domestic enemies. Trump told Bolton to call Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and instruct him to meet with Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, according to a manuscript of Bolton’s book obtained by the New York Times.
Earlier this month, Trump was asked about a signed letter by Giuliani to Zelensky, stating that he was representing Trump as a personal lawyer, with Trump’s knowledge and permission. Trump again dissembled. “I don’t know anything about the letter, but certainly Rudy is one of the great crime fighters in the history of our country,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.
Giuliani’s response is more, uh, layered. At first, he called the account of the meeting “absolutely, categorically untrue.” Asked again if Bolton — who is known for taking detailed, contemporaneous notes of his meetings — was simply making it up, Giuliani shifted to calling Bolton a rat:
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