Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign on late Saturday slammed Rudy Giuliani’s plans to travel to Ukraine, which have now been cancelled.
A campaign official responded in a statement to CNN: “It’s great to see all these strong progressive voices stand up to this attempt at a blatantly political smear which in and of itself reflects the urgent need for change and to restore the soul of the country.”
Trump lawyer Giuliani sparked a firestorm last week when he told the New York Times that he was headed to Ukraine to push its government into investigating Hunter Biden’s business links in the country.
While insisting that there was “nothing illegal about it,” Giuliani said that the information “will be very, very helpful to my client.”
On Friday, Giuliani announced on Fox News that he wasn’t going to Ukraine after all. Inventing a bizarre conspiracy, Giuliani claimed the meeting was a “setup.”
We haven’t seen anything yet.
If there was a “Blast” in this little report, I’m afraid I missed it.
This is to set up the rwing smear machine, by introducing the new line “of needed investigation” to Benghazi!!! and Her Emails!!! with Senate hearings and fox news spew for the next 18 months or so.
Just another variation of the ratfucking gaslighting by flamboyant GOP assholes aka political operatives.
This was a trail balloon that came crashing down on their heads. The last thing the Trump party expected was for Democrats to forcefully push back and protect their own.
They’re calling it a “political smear”? Willie Horton was a political smear. Birtherism was a political smear. This is an appalling use of state power to blackmail a foreign country into initiating an investigation of your political opponent. Blatantly illegal and anti-democratic. This response seems very tepid to me. At least other Democrats have been much more forceful in their response.