Section: Independent Online (South Africa)
Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid R7bn to consult on indicted associate’s firm
Was – President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500 000 (about R7 billion) for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday. The businessman, Lev Parnas, is a close associate of Giuliani and was...
Ex-Russia adviser tells inquiry Giuliani ran ‘shadow foreign policy’ in Ukraine
WASHINGTON – Fiona Hill, the White House’s former top Russia adviser, told impeachment investigators on Monday that Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, ran a shadow foreign policy in Ukraine that circumvented U.S. officials and career diplomats in order to personally benefit President Donald Trump, according to a...
Trump’s former Russia adviser to testify in House impeachment probe
WASHINGTON – Fiona Hill, the White House’s former top Russia adviser, is expected to speak to House investigators behind closed doors Monday about how the administration’s approach to Ukraine was affected by President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to have the country investigate the son of former vice...
Trump defends Giuliani in tweet after report of federal probe
Washington – US President Donald Trump defended his attorney Rudy Giuliani on Saturday as a “legendary crime buster” and “wonderful lawyer” after a media report that prosecutors are investigating whether the former New York mayor broke lobbying laws in his dealings in Ukraine. “So now they are after the...
Ex-envoy tells impeachment inquiry Trump ousted her based on ‘false claims’
WASHINGTON – The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who Donald Trump has called “bad news” told a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into the president on Friday that Trump removed her from her post based on “unfounded and false claims,” according to U.S. media reports. Marie Yovanovitch, who was abruptly...
Arrest of Giuliani associates puts Congressman in spotlight over ex-Ukraine envoy’s axing
Washington – Businessmen with ties to Rudy Giuliani lobbied a US congressman in 2018 for help ousting the American ambassador to Ukraine around the same time they committed to raising money for the lawmaker. An indictment unsealed Thursday identified the lawmaker only as “Congressman 1.” But the donations described in the...
Envoy to Ukraine was sacked after pushback on Giuliani, says ex-diplomat
Washington— The former US ambassador to Ukraine was removed from her post after insisting that Rudy Giuliani’s requests to Ukrainian officials for investigations be relayed through official channels, according to a former diplomat who has spoken with her. The ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, is scheduled to testify before congressional...
Ukraine president says ‘no blackmail’ during meeting with Donald Trump
Kiev – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump did not seek to blackmail him during a phone call in July or a meeting in September. Zelenskiy said he had not known that US military aid to Ukraine had been blocked at the time of the call. Having been made aware of this by his defence...
Joe Biden calls for Trump to be impeached for ‘abusing powers to help re-election’
Rochester – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own re-election. Biden made the remarks as part a blistering 25-minute campaign speech in New Hampshire. Biden said Trump is “shooting holes in the...
White House says it won’t cooperate with Trump impeachment inquiry
Washington – The White House on Tuesday said it would not cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, arguing that the probe “violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent” in an escalating standoff with an unbowed Congress. In a scathing, eight-page letter, the White...
