Giuliani was warned in 2019 that he was targeted by Russia
Despite the alert, Rudy Giuliani met with a Ukrainian lawmaker who the U.S. government later labeled ‘an active Russian agent’ and sanctioned on grounds he was running a smear campaign against candidate Joe Biden.
By Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris and Tom HamburgerThe Washington Post
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WASHINGTON The FBI warned Rudy Giuliani in late 2019 that he was the target of a Russian influence operation aimed at circulating falsehoods intended to damage Joe Biden politically before last year’s election, according to people familiar with the matter.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference Nov. 19 at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington.
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So, What About This Documentary?
The report gives few specifics about the actual production. But the details that are provided match up with a film that aired on One America News Network, an eight-year-old channel with a largely conservative slant and until recently a relatively small audience.
During the Trump administration, the channel was a cheerleader for many administration policies, and Trump often favored the channel over other conservative-leaning U.S. networks like Fox.
On January 21, the channel aired a one-hour video called The Ukraine Hoax hosted by a Republican operative named Michael Caputo.
Caputo was a longtime Republican activist who helped Trump s 2016 presidential campaign. Long before that, he spent years working in Russia, first for the U.S. Agency for International Development and then starting his own public relations company. In 2000, he was hired by state-controlled Gazprom-Media to try and improve Putin s image in the United States.