Trump associates did exactly what they baselessly accused Biden’s son of doing:
As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to
investigate one of Donald Trump’s main political rivals, a group of
individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also
active in the former Soviet republic. Their aims were profit, not
politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted
connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management
at the top of Ukraine’s massive state gas company. Their plan was to
then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies,
according to two people with knowledge of their plans. Their plan hit a
snag after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko lost his reelection bid
to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose conversation with Trump about former Vice
President Joe Biden is now at the center of the House impeachment
inquiry of Trump. But the effort to install a friendlier management team
at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with
Ukraine’s new president by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose slate
of candidates included a fellow Texan who is one of Perry’s past
political donors.
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