Ukraine is bitterly denying a BBC report that it paid Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, $400,000 to set up a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Poroshenko’s office called the story a “blatant lie, slander and fake.” Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko told VOA he was “very sorry” to hear that even “the most notable Western media outlets don’t abide by the principle of balanced reporting and don’t attempt to get the other side of the story.”
According to the BBC, Poroshenko desired to meet with Trump in 2017.
He wanted to open a so-called back channel to Trump because Ukrainian …read more
Source: Voice of America
