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Former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch writes in her new memoir that Rudy Giuliani "completely absorbed the lesson of Russian disinformation" while working for then President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 US election.
She's referring in particular to his role spearheading Trump's pressure campaign in Ukraine, during which Trump conditioned vital military aid and a White House meeting for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Zelenskyy assisting his 2020 reelection campaign.
Specifically, Trump and Giuliani wanted Zelenskyy to investigate bogus allegations of corruption against then Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, surrounding the latter's work for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. Trump also told Zelenskyy in a July 2019 phone call that he wanted him to investigate the false claim that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election.
In her memoir, "Lessons From The Edge," Yovanovitch writes about how Giuliani embraced these false narratives and demonstrated a key objective of the type of information warfare Russia has engaged in since the Soviet-era.
"Giuliani saw Zelenskyy's interest in meeting with Trump as an opportunity to move forward with his plan to portray Joe Biden as corrupt," the book says. "If Ukraine's president would announce that his government planned to investigate Biden, Trump and Giuliani could run with the narrative that Biden must be corrupt; why else would Ukraine be investigating?"
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