The 2019 Trump–Ukraine political scandal arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. president Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potent
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R) with Zelenskyy (L) at Zelenskyy's inauguration, May 2019
Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kash Patel poses for his official portrait at the Pentagon on November 17, 2020.
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. Associate Attorney Gene
2019 Trump–Ukraine scandal
…campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Trump enlisted surrogates in and outside his administration, including personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr, to pressure Ukraine and other governments to cooperate in supporting and legitimizing the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy…
Giuliani greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1984
Giuliani as U.S. Attorney in 1984, as photographed by Bernard Gotfryd
Giuliani greeting President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush in 1989