- Title: Ukraine 'didn't feel pressure' from us, says Giuliani
- Date: 24th September 2019
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 24, 2019) (REUTERS) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, LAWYER, RUDY GIULIANI, TALKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, LAWYER, RUDY GIULIANI, SAYING: "I think what's going on is we're watching the destruction of an American political career. We're seeing evidence of corruption unheard of before. I've never heard of a son of a vice president getting $1.5 billion from a government in which we were involved in a contentious negotiation - and his father was in charge of the contentious negotiations. That stinks to high heaven. I'm watching a Democratic Party that have become like a group of liars. This conversation with the president of Ukraine... the president of the Ukraine, nobody wants to listen, but he tells you, it's perfectly normal, 'I didn't feel pressure'. If he didn't feel pressure, there's nobody else to pressure but him over it. What has emerged that what they accused the president of doing, Obama has done multiple times, but much worse. He made private money off it. They're going to have to investigate him now, unless they are completely hypocritical. And we've actually ended up in a country, in which the media supports one standard for Republicans, investigate them for everything, including false charges, and another standard for Democrats, which is they can destroy emails, you can take billions from a foreign country while you're vice-president, you can take hundreds of millions from Russia, when you're get secretary of state. It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat, you can break any law you want. You're going to be protected by the media."
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- Keywords: Rudy Giuliani President Donald Trump Ukraine Hunter Biden Vice President Joe Biden Volodymyr Zelensky
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Economic Events,Equities Markets
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- Story Text:U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday (September 24) that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "didn't feel any pressure" from the administration to initiate an investigation that would damage Democratic political rival Joe Biden assist Trump's re-election campaign.
"If he didn't feel pressure, there's nobody else to pressure him over it," Giuliani said in New York.
His comments came a day after three U.S. House of Representatives committees said they had begun "a wide-ranging investigation" into reports that President Donald Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and possibly others pressured Ukraine's government to assist Trump's re-election campaign.
The Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees wrote to the White House and State Department seeking records related to what they described as efforts to "manipulate the Ukrainian justice system."
Trump and some of his fellow Republicans have questioned whether it represented a conflict of interest that Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden, a presidential candidate, had served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company.
Neither the president nor aides have provided any details of possible corruption by Biden when he was vice president under Trump's predecessor, Democratic President Barack Obama.
There has been no evidence so far that Biden used his position as vice president to help his son, and he said in Iowa on Saturday that he had never spoken to his son about his business dealings in Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials, while acknowledging they had met with Giuliani, have not said that they would open any investigation of Biden or his son.
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