Rudy Giuliani, failed closer

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney who curiously doesn’t get paid, has been on a mission for the better part of a year to develop a relationship (or leverage his existing relationships) in the Ukraine for the primary purpose of smearing Joe Biden and his son ahead of the 2020 election.

From at least late 2018 onward, Giuliani has been visiting with Ukrainians in New York City and Europe, really ratcheting up the conspiracy in spring of 2019, appearing on Fox News to promote the conspiracy theory about the Bidens, something Donald Trump also began doing on Twitter.

So, Donald Trump calls president-elect Zelensky, after putting a hold on the $250 million in aid (that mysteriously became $400 million in aid) and asked him for this “favor” to investigate the Bidens.

Only a few days later, on July 31, Rudy Giuliani met with Ukrainian Mayor of Kiev Vitaliy Klitschko in New York City. After that meeting, Giuliani traveled to Spain where he met with the Andriy Yermak, senior aide to Zelensky. Once news broke that the president’s private, personal attorney was meeting with representatives of a foreign leader critical to the national security of the U.S. and Europe, with $400 million in financial and military aid on the line, Giuliani went on to claim that he’d been sent to the meeting as a “mission” from the State Department.

Needless to say, that set off alarm bells. The State Department swiftly denied the unelected, unconfirmed personal attorney of the president was not representing the United States in any way, shape or form and there was no mission. They essentially threw Giuliani under a Ukrainian-sized bus.

Giuliani doubled down, waving his phone on Fox News claiming to have the evidence: text messages proving the State Department contacted him. He’s now provided the text of those messages to CNN and I’m not sure what he thought these would prove, but they definitely prove that Rudy Giuliani should himself be getting a lawyer. The texts are reportedly between Giuliani and U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker.