Cybersecurity is Guiliani's cover, but, in reality he was working with Trump to undermine the Special Counsel investigation. Guiliani assisted Trump to try to liberate Paul Manafort from his criminal wrongdoings.
This is the first time Trump blackmailed the President of Ukraine, the most recent whistleblower account is the second with a different president. President Poroshenko had to hide the "black ledger" in an office of the president rather than the Anti-Corruption Bureau where they belonged in order to receive his first shipment of Javelin missiles (click here). What is even more peculiar, at least to me, is the missiles are that of Raytheon Corp. and today Espers is Secretary of Defense. Why did he agree to serve? Protecting company patents from Russia?
I think this is modus operandi for Trump. He estranges every leader; except Putin who is all too willing to be Trump's No. 1; to bring pressure to THEIR CHOICES when needing the USA's alliance. And Guiliani is the go-between, sorry, facilitator. This is the second known act for Guiliani in taking on an unelected or appointed role of the "Covert State Department/"Hand Grenade." How many more don't we know about? Guiliani literally blew up any and all appropriate measures by the people serving in this administration and replaced it with blackmail.
By David Ignatius
After being (click here) named an “informal” Cybersecurity Advisor to President Trump in January 2017, Giuliani entered into a “cybersecurity” contract with the Ukrainian government — personally enriching himself while appearing to use his position of influence to help advance Ukraine’s foreign policy goals
...Trump survived (click here) his first effort to solicit foreign political help in his appeals to Russia for damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign. But soon after Trump was cleared of “collusion” by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, he seemingly went at it again — this time demanding political dirt from Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as a condition of delivering military assistance to Kyiv....
...What led to Trump’s first meeting on June 20, 2017, with Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko? Ukraine had hired the lobbying firm BGR Group in January 2017 to foster contact with Trump, but nothing had happened . . . and then the door opened. Why?
On June 7, less than two weeks before Poroshenko’s White House meeting, Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, had visited Kyiv to give a speech for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, headed by a prominent Ukrainian oligarch. While Giuliani was there, he also met with Poroshenko and his prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, according a news release issued by the foundation.
Just after Giuliani’s visit, Ukraine’s investigation of the so-called black ledger that listed alleged illicit payments to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was transferred from an anti-corruption bureau, known as NABU , to Poroshenko’s prosecutor general, according to a June 15, 2017, report in the Kyiv Post. The paper quoted Viktor Trepak, former deputy head of the country’s security service, saying: “It is clear for me that somebody gave an order to bury the black ledger.”...
