While deranged Trump consigliere Rudy "Rudy Colludy" Giuliani rummages around Ukraine trying to get fellow corrupt officials to manufacture dirt on the Bidens, he's also been working private "deals" with various politicians there. As the Washington Post reports, Giuliani "suggested" to Ukrainian President Zelinski that a client of his, former boxing champ and Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitchko, be retained in a government post that he was about to be removed from. Klitschko stayed, and Giuliani earned his fee:
"Last summer, amid speculation about whether he would be fired, Klitschko flew to the United States.
Klitschko met with Giuliani in New York, posting a photo on Facebook of himself and the former New York mayor seated in Giuliani’s office.
The meeting came just a week after Trump exhorted Zelensky in a July 25 phone call to coordinate with Giuliani on an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, who served on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was in office.
In an interview, [Lev] Parnas said he did not attend Giuliani’s meeting with Klitschko in New York, but was briefed on it afterward by both Giuliani and a lawyer for Klitschko.
Parnas said he was told by both men that, during the meeting, Klitschko complained to Giuliani that the Zelensky administration was trying to oust him — and appealed for help.
'He basically cried to Rudy, saying they were going after him unfairly,' Parnas said."Giuliani's clearly using his proximity to sociopath and con artist Donald "Impeached Forever" Trump for leverage on behalf of his private clients in dealing with the Ukrainian government. That kind of influence peddling has been a hallmark of corrupt politicians for generations. It's what Rethugs hypocritically refer to as "the swamp," despite being its most numerous denizens, with Rudy Colludy being one of its biggest predators.
More of "the truth will come out."
(photo: Jabin Botsford/Washington Post/Getty Images)
