Giuliani brags he's still pushing for Ukraine to implicate Biden, even as Trump faces impeachment

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani bragged that he was in contact with multiple Ukrainian officials on the same day that European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland threw him and the president under the bus in his impeachment testimony.  Sondland corroborated much of the House Democrats’ narrative that President Donald Trump instructed administration officials to work with Giuliani to pressure Ukraine into investigating Burisma — a company that employed former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter — and the baseless conspiracy theory that Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election.Advertisement:  "Secretary [Rick] Perry, Ambassador [Kurt] Volker and I worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express direction of the President of the United States," Sondland told the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. "Simply put, we played the hand we were dealt. We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose an important opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine. So we followed the president's orders."  Sondland testified that a White House meeting sought by new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was conditioned on him publicly announcing investigations into Burisma and the Ukrainian conspiracy theory linked to a nonexistent DNC server.Advertisement:  "Mr. Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky," Sondland said. "Mr. Giuliani demanded that Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election/DNC server and Burisma. Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the President of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the President."  Despite even Fox News describing Sondland’s testimony as potentially damning to the president, Giuliani told Blaze TV host Glenn Beck on Wednesday that he is still working on pursuing the same investigations that triggered the impeachment inquiry.  Giuliani continued to push allegations made by former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was forced out of his position under pressure from Biden, as U.S. and European government leaderships agreed Shokin was corrupt and had solicited bribes to end investigations.Advertisement:  Giuliani complained to Beck that the State Department had refused to grant visas to Shokin and other Ukrainian officials.  “All I can tell you is that for three or four years, that embassy has deliberately interfered with the ability to develop this story by not giving visas to Shokin and now four or five other parliamentarians, who are ready, willing and able to testify to this," Giuliani said.Advertisement:  “They have direct evidence about the bribery, the collusion. The case is a massive pay-for-play, multimillion-dollar scheme,” Giuliani claimed. “I was in contact with two of them today.”  Giuliani also told Beck that he fed information to conservative columnist John Solomon, formerly of The Hill. Solomo

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