Pres. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is heading to Ukraine where he wants to meet with the nation’s president-elect to encourage him to look into matters that could help his client – the president.
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is on a new mission now that he has finished jousting with the special counsel: stopping former Vice President Joe Biden from becoming the 2020 Democratic nominee.
The former New York mayor has told reporters his agenda includes a request to Ukrainian leaders for any information they can share about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, which concluded last month. He also plans to ask for more details about any action taken by former Vice President Biden, while he was in office, that may have benefited his son, Hunter Biden.
Giuliani also appeared on Fox News, to further argue that the foreign trip is in keeping with his responsibility as President Trump's attorney. The potential for conflicts between the public duties of elected officials and the private work of their relatives has been a familiar, and at times potent, focus of scrutiny in Washington in almost every administration.
The payments to Hunter Biden’s firm came at a time when his father was point person for the Obama administration on U.S. policy toward Ukraine and pushing hard for reforms in the country, which had been saddled with corruption allegations. Giuliani has raised a concern that the prosecutor who was fired, Viktor Shokin, was at the time leading a corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, the firm that was paying Hunter Biden’s consulting partnership and on whose board he served. Whether the prosecutor was, in fact, looking into Burisma Holdings – or if that effort was dormant --has been in dispute, and like many politically-freighted matters in the Ukraine, the facts have now become difficult to reconstruct.
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