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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent accused Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, of making many lies, against diplomacy.
The statement was made by Kent at a private hearing in the US House of Representatives on October 15 and the record was released on November 7. This is part of a House of Commons committee effort to gather evidence to investigate impeachment of President Donald Trump, revolving around a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky.
Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, spoke in Albania in July Photo: Reuters.
During the telephone call, the US President allegedly urged Kiev to investigate Joe Biden, the leading Democratic candidate in the race to the White House in exchange for a military aid package. Trump and the White House vehemently denied the allegations.
In a hearing before the House of Representatives, Kent, Assistant Deputy Secretary of State for European and Asian Affairs, mentioned lawyer Giuliani a total of 73 times. He accused Trump's personal lawyer of carrying out a campaign to smear and bring down the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, causing her to lose her position in May. Kent himself was also pressed by the governments of Ukaraine and Giuliani. , onslaught.
"The judgments and allegations from Giuliani to former ambassador Yovanovitch are unfounded and untrue," Kent said. "Giuliani had carried out a campaign full of lies and inaccurate information about Ambassador Yovanovitch for months," he said, adding that this was only part of what the lawyer had done. Trump's own did.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Asian Affairs George Kent arrived in US Congress on October 15 Photo: AP
Giuliani said in September that he had asked the Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter Biden, former vice president son Joe Biden, in order to clarify doubts about the former US president's wrongdoing.
Giuliani accused Biden of being a Vice President of the United States for trying to fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son's business deal, Hunter. Mr. Shokin was later dismissed in March 2016, but Joe Biden and Hunter denied the allegations.
In October, Giuliani refused to provide documents to the House of Representatives committee because he thought the Trump impeachment investigation was unconstitutional.
