President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani reversed course late Friday, saying he will no longer be traveling to Ukraine on a new mission to stop former Vice President Joe Biden from becoming the 2020 Democratic nominee. In the previously planned trip, Giuliani was to head to Ukraine
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani reversed course late Friday, saying he will no longer be traveling to Ukraine on a new mission to stop former Vice President Joe Biden from becoming the 2020 Democratic nominee.
The former New York mayor has told reporters his agenda was to include 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 Biden, while he was in office, that may have benefited his son, Hunter Biden.
"There’s nothing illegal about it,” Giuliani said. “Somebody could say it’s improper. And this isn’t foreign policy -- I’m asking them to do an investigation that they’re doing already and that other people are telling them to stop." 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.
One element of that effort was the vice president’s push the dismissal of a Ukrainian prosecutor who had been accused of being soft on corruption. Biden described the effort -- in which said he used a planned announcement of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to the country as leverage to fight corruption -- in a videotaped speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in January 2018, as first reported by The Hill.
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