In his deposition today, former Ukraine envoy Karl Volker told Congress that he warned deranged Trump TV lawyer and conspiracy spinning buffoon Rudy "Ghouliani" Giuliani that the stories about former VP Biden and his son regarding Ukrainian corruption were unreliable and suspect. Despite the warning, Giuliani continued to "investigate" the bogus story in the hopes of smearing Biden and his son. Volker warned him that he was receiving bogus information from the corrupt former prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was fired for not investigating the corruption of the previous pro-Russian Yanokovich government that was ousted by a popular uprising in 2014.
Volker told the lawmakers that he also cautioned Ukrainian officials to stay away from U.S. politics, a caution that was apparently ignored by the new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Volker also brought documents to his deposition, which may open additional lines of inquiry not only regarding Giuliani's improper role, but the role of any State Department officials that assisted Giuliani in constructing a smear of Biden.
UPDATE: The reprehensible Ghouliani is also responsible for the sacking of then- Ambassador to Ukraine and career Foreign Service Officer Marie Yovanovich:
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump recalled Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, after his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani complained that she wasn’t helping him advance his conspiracy theory about former Vice President Joe Biden and his family’s business dealings in the region.
According to the report, Giuliani “reminded the president of complaints percolating among Trump supporters that she had displayed an anti-Trump bias in private conversations. In Mr. Giuliani’s view, she also had been an obstacle to efforts to push Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden and his son, Hunter.”That son of a bitch needs to be in a straight jacket -- inside a cell.
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