A former Ukrainian prosecutor general reportedly told President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that he saw no evidence of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son as Trump alleged, according to the Los Angeles Times
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Trump made the unsubstantiated allegation that Biden, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination to face Trump in 2020, used his official capacity as vice president at the time to help Ukranian energy company Burisma, which his son Hunter Biden served on the board of, by pushing for the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
The complaint by an anonymous U.S. intelligence official is at the center of a formal House impeachment inquiry into the president and alleges Trump used “the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. elections.” Lutsenko was also involved in the U.S. State Department removing U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in May, which happened as Giuliani increased pressure on the new Zelensky administration to get involved in U.S. politics. Lutsenko alleged that Yovanovitch interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections by handing him a “do not prosecute” list and “had blocked Ukrainian prosecutors from traveling to the United States expressly to prevent them from delivering ‘evidence’ about the 2016 U.S.
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