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The Daily 202: Five reasons Trump cannot easily scapegoat Rudy Giuliani for the Ukraine ‘drug deal’ gone bad

"...Two strikes! Rudy under the bus....Pence under the bus....who's on deck?..."

By James Hohmann
November 27 at 11:25 AM

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1) Trump told several U.S. government officials they needed to “talk with Rudy” about Ukraine, according to sworn testimony.

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2) Trump told Ukraine’s president to talk with Rudy, as well.

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3) Giuliani has repeatedly said that he was acting on Trump’s behalf vis-a-vis Ukraine over the course of several months, and the president never challenged this.

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4) Trump had multiple personal interactions with the Giuliani associates who have been indicted.

Parnas has told associates that he and Fruman told Trump during a dinner at the Trump hotel in April 2018 that they thought that the then-Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was unfriendly to the president and his interests. “According to Parnas, the president reacted strongly to the news: Trump immediately suggested that [she] should be fired,” my colleagues Rosalind Helderman, Matt Zapotosky, Tom Hamburger and Josh Dawsey reported on Nov. 12. “The president was updated regularly by Giuliani on what he was learning about Parnas’s and Fruman’s efforts in Ukraine, according to a former senior administration official … ‘It’s just not true that he had no idea who these guys were. He knew Lev particularly,’ the person said.”

5) Giuliani says he has an insurance policy that will deter Trump from turning against him.

Much more with links and videos - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/11/27/daily-202-five-reasons-trump-cannot-easily-scapegoat-rudy-giuliani-for-the-ukraine-drug-deal-gone-bad/5dde123688e0fa652bbbda95/