from a few days ago
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Inbox: Sen. Kamala Harris has sent a letter to Steve Linick, Inspector General for the Department of State, demanding he investigate whether any Department of State officials enabled Rudy Giuliani to advance political activities on behalf of President Trump.
4:35 PM · Sep 26, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
The coverage suggests Giuliani reached out to new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskys team this summer solely because he wanted to get dirt on possible Trump 2020 challenger Joe Biden and his son Hunters business dealings in that country.
Politics or law could have been part of Giulianis motive, and neither would be illegal.
But there is a missing part of the story that the American public needs in order to assess what really happened: Giulianis contact with Zelensky adviser and attorney Andrei Yermak this summer was encouraged and facilitated by the U.S. State Department.
Why would Ukraine want to talk to Giuliani, and why would the State Department be involved in facilitating it? According to interviews with more than a dozen Ukrainian and U.S. officials, Ukraines government under recently departed President Petro Poroshenko and, now, Zelensky has been trying since summer 2018 to hand over evidence about the conduct of Americans they believe might be involved in violations of U.S. law during the Obama years.