White House lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he has compromising evidence on former US Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The lawyer wrote about this on his Twitter.
“The Biden family for four decades profited from his position,” the lawyer wrote, noting that the relevant documents are stored in his safe and will be made public if he “disappears”.
TRUTH ALERT:
The statement I've made several times of having an insurance policy, if thrown under bus, is sarcastic & relates to the files in my safe about the Biden Family's 4 decade monetizing of his office.
If I disappear, it will appear immediately along with my RICO chart.
On the eve, Giuliani said that he "discovered signs of corruption that had been hidden for years by the efforts of the Washington press."
“And I will shed light on a large-scale scheme for the provision of services for money created under Obama. This will be a crushing blow to the Democratic Party. Do you really think that you can be intimidating me? ”Trump's lawyer wrote in his microblog.
I discovered a pattern of corruption that the Washington press covered up for years!
I'm also going to bring out a massive pay-for-play scheme under the Obama Administration that will devastate the Democrat Party.
Do you honestly think I'm intimidated?
According to experts, the statements of Giuliani about some insurance in case of his "disappearance" may well have every reason.
“It is known that individuals who had already testified in Congress against Trump were threatened with physical violence. Apparently, a similar atmosphere of hatred develops with respect to Trump supporters, including Giuliani. Now in the United States, parties go to each other, figuratively speaking, wall to wall. Rudolf Giuliani was at the epicenter of this scandal, became one of the key figures in the history of impeachment, ”Vladimir Vasiliev, the chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada, explained in an interview with RT.
“Arbitration Proceedings”
It is worth noting that Donald Trump's lawyer also posted on Twitter his letter to the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Republican Lindsay Graham, dated November 22. In this document, Giuliani said that three witnesses who are able to testify against the Biden can’t fly out of Kiev, because the US Embassy in Ukraine in Kiev refuses to give these people visas.
- Joe Biden and his son Hunter
- © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
The document says that the "staged proceedings" of the Democrats, based on "unacceptable evidence," continue, while there are real crimes that should be investigated, but which remain unattended and hushed up.
“There are at least three witnesses who have direct (non-derivative) evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Democrats and Ukrainians with the aim of preventing Donald Trump from taking office or getting him removed from office on the basis of trumped-up charges,” the letter said. Giuliani.
According to him, these witnesses have evidence of the involvement of the Biden family in bribes, money laundering and extortion.
My letter to @LindseyGrahamSC
These witnesses have direct (non-hearsay) evidence of Democrat criminal conspiracy with Ukrainians to prevent @realDonaldTrump from being President, and more.
Taylor's Embassy is uniformly refusing them visas. pic.twitter.com/LZTygHlkwy
“I will send to your office the names of three witnesses who need visas, as well as a request that you overcome the resistance of the State Department and ensure their early arrival so that they can pass us their extremely relevant evidence,” Giuliani said in a letter.
He believes that “if the disclosure is fair and the perpetrators are duly held accountable,” faith in the government will be restored.
Although the head of the State Department is appointed by the president, this does not mean the complete loyalty of diplomatic circles to the head of state, the local diplomatic staff are quite capable of sabotaging the secretary’s decisions, experts say. According to the director of the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation for the Study of the United States at Moscow State University, Yuri Rogulev, neither Michael Pompeo nor Donald Trump are popular among the diplomatic corps.
“The issuance of visas is a closed process, to which there is no public access, therefore, the alleged witnesses mentioned by Giuliani could be denied entry under any pretext,” the expert explained in a comment to RT.
From his point of view, the reproach voiced by Giuliani to the "Washington Press" is quite justified.
“Any information about corruption, obtaining preferences, etc. Usually widely circulated by the American media, many senators and congressmen were previously in the spotlight of journalists because of accusations of misuse of official powers. But Biden’s media was ignored because the press was located at the administration of Barack Obama, ”the expert emphasized.
Ukrainian trace
Recall that in mid-November the media reported that the US Federal Attorney's Office launched an investigation against Giuliani. This was reported with reference to sources of Bloomberg and The Wall Sreet Journal (WSJ).
According to media reports, the investigation concerns the possible gain by a lawyer of personal benefits from the implementation of gas projects in Ukraine, which allegedly were lobbied by entrepreneurs Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. In October, they were arrested by US authorities in connection with a suspicion of conspiracy to organize foreign funding of the campaign committee of Donald Trump. This was reported with reference to anonymous law enforcement officers by the NBC television channel.
According to media reports, the prosecutor's office suspects Giuliani that businessmen affiliated with him already in 2019 tried to advance, during negotiations with Kiev officials, a project to lay a pipeline from Poland to Ukraine, through which regasified U.S. LNG would be delivered. According to media reports, as part of this discussion, businessmen also tried to push Ukrainian officials to begin an investigation into the Biden.
Recall that Joe Biden is one of the key contenders for the role of the candidate from the Democratic Party in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. However, allegations of corruption could overshadow Biden’s political prospects - in the spring, The Hill reported that Hunter Biden could illegally receive large sums from Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian company that he served on the board of directors in 2014-2019.
According to the publication, the described events occurred at a time when Biden Sr. served as vice president of the United States. It is assumed that it was he who put pressure on the Ukrainian prosecutor's office and secured the dismissal of head of department Viktor Shokin in order to curtail the investigation of his son.
This story interested Donald Trump, who publicly accuses a potential rival of corruption.
However, the Democrats tried to turn this situation against Trump himself, saying that the head of the White House is putting pressure on Kiev so that the Ukrainian authorities begin an investigation against the Biden.
In the fall, US media reported that Trump allegedly demanded that Vladimir Zelensky initiate an investigation against the Biden family during their telephone conversation. In addition, it was reported that the White House, with the participation of Rudolf Giuliani, was trying to blackmail Kiev by blocking financial and military assistance.
Amid these allegations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of the impeachment procedure to Donald Trump.
In mid-November, open hearings began in the US Congress. The Democrats, who have the majority of seats in the lower house, accused the head of state of using official powers for personal purposes.
“Effort makes no sense”
As noted by Yuri Rogulev, although during the hearings against Trump a lot of accusations were made, no evidence of his guilt has yet been presented.
“Today, Republicans are preparing an answer to the steps of the Democrats, they are seeking that the case of impeachment be referred to the Senate, where the Republican Party has the majority. Then they will call the witnesses they need, including those about whom Giuliani wrote to Senator Graham, ”said the expert.
A similar point of view is shared by Vladimir Vasiliev. In his opinion, Giuliani’s statement that there was compromising evidence on Biden may be “part of a political game,” the goal of which is to deepen the crisis in the Democratic Party.
“Initially, the entire impeachment story was initiated by the Democrats to save Biden’s reputation, as there is no alternative to him now. With her statement, Giuliani makes it clear to political opponents that their further efforts do not make sense, and the history of impeachment needs to be minimized, ”the expert said.
According to Vladimir Vasiliev, in the United States there is little doubt that Biden Jr. joined the board of directors on corruption grounds. But the White House wants to receive supporting documentation from Kiev in order to either start an official investigation, or simply make it public. It would cost Biden the nomination of a candidate from the Democratic Party, the expert believes.
“It is possible that Giuliani really got all the documents already, the question is when to use them so that it works,” Vasiliev summed up.