Ukraine president-elect may refuse to meet Trump's lawyer when he flies into Kiev, sources say

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Independent

A controversial plan to leverage Ukrainian politics in the 2020 American election campaign looks to have come unstuck, with The Independent learning president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky may now refuse to meet Mr Trump’s lawyer Rudy Guiliani when he arrives in Kiev later this month.

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The former New York mayor said he hoped to meet with a number of leading Ukrainian politicians including Mr Zelensky, elected in a landslide election last month, and Ukraine’s controversial top prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko.

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But the Giuliani initiative has, perhaps unsurprisingly, gone down badly in Ukraine. Many criticise him for an indelicate and unhelpful intervention into local politics.

Two separate sources in Mr Zelensky’s circle told The Independent that it was now unlikely the president-elect would choose to personally attend the meeting, and would instead send representatives.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-next-president-volodymyr-zelensky-trump-meeting-guiliani-a8908941.html

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The article goes on to say that Zelensky plans to replace Lutsenko, and Lutsenko's dealings with Giuliani are seen as a desperate move to hold on to the prosecutor's office.

[delisen]

1. Maybe they will manage to reveal Giuliani dealings with Russian

linked oligarchs.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Ah, the worm turns?

Rudi is a fraud, a criminal, a montebank and a fool. I can forgive all except being a pretend dummy for other fools.

[Iliyah]

3. "may"

[delisen]

4. Giuliani deep into Kremlin related business for decades

TRUMP LAWYER RUDY GIULIANI’S MYSTERIOUS TIES TO RUSSIA AND FORMER SOVIET UNION GO BACK DECADES, EXPERTS ARGUE
BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 11/16/18 AT 10:46 AM EST

While lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani represents President Donald Trump on matters related to the special counsel’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, Giuliani has maintained his own ties to the Kremlin and its allies.

In the month of October, Giuliani traveled to Armenia at the invitation of a Kremlin-linked businessman to participate in a forum for a Russia-led economic union. That same month, the former New York mayor was also named in a criminal complaint because his former law firm allegedly helped Kazakh fugitives launder stolen money. Both Armenia and Kazakhstan were once part of the Soviet Union, and today their governments, security services and intelligence organizations maintain close ties to Moscow.

But experts say Giuliani’s ties to individuals from the former Soviet Union go back decades—and his lucrative connections to the region have occasionally been intertwined with Trump's.

“One of Giuliani’s earliest associations was with Semyon ‘Sam’ Kislin, who donated money to both his 1993 and 1997 campaigns [for mayor] and was appointed by Giuliani to serve on the New York City Mayor’s Council of Economic Advisors,” Olga Lautman, an investigative reporter who spent three years tracking ties between the Russian mafia and Trump’s associates, told Newsweek

more at link

https://www.newsweek.com/giuliani-mysterious-ties-russia-former-soviet-union-decades-1215349

[paleotn]

6. Hmmm. Another Russian asset....

Seems the Kremlin has far more American assets now than the height of the Cold War.

[dalton99a]

7. +1. A longtime traitor just like Trump

[ToxMarz]

5. Everything Trump touches DIES!

[B Stieg]

8. Corruption, coruption, coruption.

It's tRump's greatest export!
The next step--be it impeachment or investigation--can't come soon enough!

[BlueIdaho]

9. Why should he?

Mr Noun, Verb, and 911 holds no governmental office.

[smb]

10. Why Would The Ukranians Want To Help Demented Donnie?

They know Putin's Puppet would sell their whole country down the river.

[Bradical79]

11. I don't see the benefit here

Meeting with a personal lawyer of Trump to talk about investigations into his enemies doesn't seem like a great way to help your case. Michelle Obama was right when she talked about many of these elites being not so smart.

[riversedge]

12. Wonder if Rudy knew this before he cancelled??