Ukraine's President Was One CNN Interview Away From Giving In to Trump and Giuliani's Pressure Campa [View all]
Source: Vice
WASHINGTON — Ambassador Bill Taylor spent early September racing to stop a “nightmare” scenario from unfolding: The President of Ukraine announcing a politically explosive investigation of Joe Biden on CNN at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Taylor’s “nightmare” might’ve become a reality — if Trump’s pressure campaign hadn’t become public thanks to a whistleblower.
That’s because as recently as early September, President Trump’s administration had been military aid as a tool to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing politically helpful investigations for Trump, according to Taylor’s testimony.
Taylor, a career foreign service officer, said that he had spent the better part of the summer battling a “shadow foreign policy” led by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney. That fight culminated in a mad scramble to keep Ukraine’s president from doing an on-camera interview with CNN during the United Nations General Assembly meetings in late-September to announce investigations against Trump’s potential 2020 opponent, Joe Biden.
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