Mr. Giuliani told the president and Mr. Pompeo that Ms. Yovanovitch was blocking visas for Ukrainian prosecutors to come to the United States to present evidence to him—and also to federal authorities—that he claimed could be damaging to Mr. Biden and his son Hunter Biden, and to Ukrainians who distributed documents that led to the resignation of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Mr. Giuliani also claimed, based on his own interviews with those prosecutors, that Ms. Yovanovitch had sought to block investigations in Ukraine. And he relayed vague claims that she had been bad-mouthing the president.

Of course, there is zero evidence that Yovanovitch disparaged Trump or that she had a do-not-prosecute list, just as there is zero evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens. That reality, though, didn’t stop Giuliani from telling his tale to Fox News on Monday night:

For his part, Trump has claimed that Giuliani acted alone on Ukraine, which wasn’t believable the first time he said it, and is now even less so!

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Trump suggests Adam Schiff should be killed by firing squad, or something

As New York magazine points out, “It’s unclear if the president could have been referring to the Guatemalan death squads active during the country’s long civil war, or if he thought of the Central American country only because its president was sitting next to him.” It’s also possible he was referring to gang violence, but as is the case, the intention is difficult to translate from its original Trump.