Unreleased Audio Reveals How Rudy Giuliani Pressured Ukraine To Investigate Joe Biden

An unreleased audio so far shows how Rudy Giuliani, one of former President Donald Trump's top advisers, "relentlessly lobbied and convinced" the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate unfounded conspiracies on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden . The pressures are deduced from an unpublished recording that CNN has obtained and published on Tuesday. It is about a phone call from July 2019 between Giuliani, the American diplomat Kurt Volker and Andriy Yermak, main adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski , says the North American network. This call pre-dated Trump's to Zelensky, and both conversations later became a central part of thefirst impeachment trial against the former Republican president , where he was accused of soliciting Ukrainian aid for his campaign.

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During the roughly 40-minute call, Giuliani repeatedly told Yermak that Zelenski should make public investigations into possible Biden corruption cases in Ukraine and claim that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election to harm Trump - claims that are false. according to CNN. "All we need from the president (Zelenski) is to affirm, I am going to put an honest prosecutor in charge, he will investigate and dig up the evidence, which currently exists and there is some other about the turnout in the 2016 elections, and then we have to end the Biden affair, "Giuliani said, according to the audio." ... Someone in Ukraine should take that seriously, "reveals the network.

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The new audio demonstrates how Giuliani aggressively "cajoled" Ukrainians into carrying out Trump's orders. The call was one of the first initiatives that Trump and his allies used to harm Biden and subvert the 2020 election process, calling for foreign meddling, lying about voter fraud and attempting to reverse the results, and inciting on January 6 the assault on the Capitol, stresses CNN. Giuliani has not been charged with any specific crime so far, but has been under investigation since at least 2019 in a case that allegedly focuses on his business in Ukraine. 

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They try to show that Giulani illegally lobbied the government in favor of Ukrainian officials and businessmen, who allegedly helped the lawyer tolooking for dirty laundry on Trump's political rivals, including then-presidential hopeful Joe Biden. Recently, the legal battle has centered on documents and data from digital devices seized by the FBI, which last April searched the home of Giuliani, also a former mayor of New York. Giuliani has so far denied all these alleged wrongdoing.

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