Welcome aboard Rudy:
I know I can always count on you
Or “Dirt” on Biden via: Bribes & threats, um Mr. Ukraine
(That kind of “Info” right, Rudy Gee)
“Rudy Giuliani's former DOJ colleagues believe
he committed crimes in pushing Biden probe”
Jeffrey Harris, who worked
closely with Giuliani in the 1980s and is now a lawyer in private practice in
DC, said to NBC “I think the Giuliani that I know would
prosecute the Giuliani of today. There’s a whole apparatus of the United States
government that’s set up to deal with foreign officials and Rudy Giuliani’s not
one of them. To the extent that you could look at this as using government
resources for your benefit, there are a number of crimes that this conduct
would answer to.”
NBC News also
reached out to seven former colleagues of Giuliani's. Of the six who offered
comments of Giuliani, none, on or off the record defended him.
Harris and the
other former DOJ lawyers said they believe Giuliani has potentially exposed
himself to a range of offenses — from breaking federal election laws to bribery
to extortion — through his efforts to assist the Ukrainians in probing Biden, thought to be Trump’s
top political opponent.
Background: On a Friday in late July, Giuliani boarded a plane to Spain to meet with an
adviser to the Ukrainian president about a plan to investigate Joe Biden. That trip
is now described in the whistleblower complaint in all the news.
Even several
former Giuliani colleagues said they believe it should appear in a future
indictment. That Giuliani trip and role in this scandal has triggered an impeachment inquiry and still coming into
focus.
Giuliani’s
trip to Spain came one day after Trump urged Ukraine President Volodymyr
Zelenskiy to probe Biden and his son Hunter, according to the whistleblower's
complaint.
Trump pushed the claim that Biden helped to force out a Ukrainian
prosecutor (Viktor
Shokin) because the man was probing a gas company that employed Hunter Biden
as a consultant.
Shokin was ousted amid calls from top officials of several Western nations
over concerns he wasn’t doing enough to root out deep-seated corruption. The
whistleblower's complaint also says that Giuliani had other contacts with
Ukrainian officials as part of the effort to dig up dirt on Biden.
For example,
Giuliani met with Ukraine’s prosecutor general on at least two occasions — in
New York in January and in Warsaw, Poland in February, filed in the complaint.
At the heart
of the whistleblower's complaint is the allegation that Trump
abused his power by “… soliciting interference from a foreign country in the
2020 elections” — with Giuliani acting as the president’s point person in the
effort.
Bruce Fein, a former special assistant to the Assistant AG for the Office of Legal
Counsel (OLC) under President Nixon and associate Deputy AG under President Reagan,
and he worked at the DOJ with Giuliani in the early 1980s, said he believes
Giuliani could be prosecuted for breaking federal election law, adding: “He was soliciting a foreign government to
help Trump’s 2020 campaign. That’s a problem. Federal election laws make it
illegal to solicit anything of value from a foreign government or persons to
influence the outcome of an election.” (Ergo: Trying to get, or
actually getting dirt on Biden or any other political opponent that way breaks
the law).
Fein said
Giuliani could also have opened himself up to bribery charges in connection
with the president allegedly withholding military funds in order to pressure
the Ukraine to launch an investigation of the Bidens, adding: “If Giuliani was privy to that, he could be
complicit with Trump in conspiring to solicit a bribe.”
Giuliani,
who has said he’s been working as an unpaid attorney for Trump, has told NBC
News that he went to Spain on his own dime on a trip he described as a mix of
business and pleasure. Giuliani is not listed as receiving any money from the
Trump campaign, according to FEC filings.
Giuliani
scoffed at the suggestion that he had broken the law, saying: “Büllshït. They don’t know what they are
talking about. What crimes?”
My 2 cents: This cannot be brushed aside as
“Fake News” or “Media Witch Hunt,” or “A Hoax” all words Trump uses to label
these things – not one bit.
This is very serious criminal acts on Trumps part,
and I might add although very complex, quite easy to follow and understand the
story based on one simple statement: “Trump tried to use a foreign government
to stay in office.”
It is incomprehensible to me and I’m sure to millions
of rational-thinking Americans that using or trying to use any foreign
government in any sense of the word “to use” for political gain is unlawful and
flat out un-American by any definition.
Trump and those around him are just like those involved with Nixon during Watergate, or with Reagan and VP (later
President George H. W. Bush who pardoned most of the guilty) in Iran-Contra,
or all the way back to the Teapot Dome oil leasing public land
scandal in 1920 under President Harding must be punished, too.
The GOP always professes to be the party of “law and
order and justice.” I say to them: Prove it.
Thanks for stopping by.
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