The Treasury Department has sanctioned Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian parliament member, for allegedly working with Russian agents to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Andrii Derkach, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, for allegedly working with Russian agents to try to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Between May and July of this year, Derkach released edited audio tapes and other unsupported information with the intent of discrediting U.S. officials, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Thursday. Three other Russian-linked people were also sanctioned. Derkach was one of the politicians who met with President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani in Kyiv last year, even as top Ukrainian officials avoided the U.S. president’s unofficial emissary. Giuliani’s actions in the country later factored into Trump’s impeachment.
Leaked recordings allegedly featuring Joe Biden, released in a heavily edited version by the Ukrainian lawmaker, involve phone conversations between Biden — at the time Barack Obama’s vice president — and then-Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko. Derkach previously said he got the files from investigative journalists.
In response to the tapes, Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, tweeted, “Yikes!!!! This is not a ‘perfect conversation.’” But Biden’s campaign said the tape was old news about a phone call he made for good reason. “They heavily edited this,” spokesman Andrew Bates said, “and it’s still a nothing-burger that landed with a thud.”
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