Former US diplomat said Giuliani influenced Trump on his negative Ukraine view that they had 'terrible people'

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'I also made clear to the Ukrainians, on a number of occasions, that Mayor Giuliani is a private citizen and the president's personal lawyer, and that he does not represent the United States government,' Kurt Volker told lawmakers behind closed doors.

"It was clear to me that, despite the positive news and recommendations being conveyed by this official delegation about theresident, President Trump had a deeply rooted negative view on Ukraine rooted in the past," Volker continued."He was clearly receiving other information from other sources, including Mayor Giuliani, that was more negative, causing him to retain this negative view.

Volker stated he continued to try and arrange a meeting between Trump and Zelensky leading up to the July 25 phone call to no avail. Volker said he was unaware that Trump made such a request or that Biden was referenced until a partial transcript of the call was released to the public by the White House.

In August, when Volker and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland expressed their hope that Giuliani would convince Trump about Zelensky's good faith and help schedule a White House meeting. Giuliani said Zelensky"needed to make a statement about fighting corruption," to which Volker agreed.

 

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Corruption is like mold, it just spreads onto everything around it.

So, our country's most terrible person is taking the advice of our country's second most terrible person about how terrible the people are in another country. Makes sense.

Don't let him off the hook by blaming Giuliani. He's the freaking president. He should be grown up to form his own opinions and he's already trying to hide behind Perry. Let's not give him any more scapegoats.

Ukraine is the third most corrupt country in the world. RudyGiuliani is correct. So what is the problem? $1.8 BILLION IN AID WAS GIVEN TO UKRAINE AND FLAT DISAPPEARED! DISAPPEARED! What are you talking about? realDonaldTrump is correct to be leery.

So instead of “New testimony points to Biden being innocent”, they choose this. More spin than a curveball

they were terrible people -- at folding to trump's demands

THE GOP STILL ENABLING TRUMP ARE BETRAYING THEIR OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

ImpeachTrump . IndictBarrGIULIANIPencePompeo

Trump always deflecting. Trump needs to stare at himself in the mirror for about a minute or two and tell the mirror how corrupt he is. The he is as an adult is the way he was as a child. Nothing impressive about the orange man.

Doesn’t take much...😒

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