FBI told Giuliani and key Trump ally in Senate of Russian disinformation campaign Author: Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris, Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post Updated: 1 day ago Published 1 day ago
Rudy Giuliani, then President Donald Trump s personal attorney, scans the room during a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing on suspicion of voter fraud within the state at the House Office Building in Lansing, Mich. Federal agents raided Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, seizing computers and cellphones in a major escalation of the Justice Department’s investigation into his business dealings. (Mike Mulholland/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
FBI are probing whether Rudy Giuliani broke law by getting US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired in exchange for information on the Bidens
Investigators are said to be trying to determine if Giuliani was acting on behalf of Ukrainian officials when he pushed for Yovanovitch s ousting
Lobbying the US government on behalf of foreigners without registering with the Justice Department is a crime
Yovanovitch was abruptly fired by Donald Trump in May 2019 following what she and many others said was a smear campaign orchestrated by Giuliani
Trump s then-personal attorney wanted her out of the picture because she refused to help dig up dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine
The FBI warned U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson in August that he could be a target for Russian disinformation, but he dismissed the briefing as a political ploy, according to the senator.
Johnson, an Oshkosh Republican and loyal backer of former President Donald Trump, told the Washington Post that the FBI briefing didn t include specifics and he already knew of the threat from Russia. He said he believed he was being given the briefing so it could be used against him later.
As the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Johnson spent much of 2019 and 2020 investigating the activities of Hunter Biden, the son of now-President Joe Biden who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson confirmed this week that the FBI warned him in August he was the target of Russian disinformation U.S. intelligence officials believe the foreign adversary was using to promote its interests in the lead-up to the November presidential election.
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âRegarding reports that I received an FBI briefing warning me that I was a target of Russian disinformation, I can confirm I received such a briefing in August of 2020,â Johnson said in a statement to The Washington Post. âI asked the briefers what specific evidence they had regarding this warning, and they could not provide me anything other than the generalized warning. Without specific information, I felt the briefing was completely useless and unnecessary (since I was fully aware of the dangers of Russian disinformation).