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Intel Agencies Call Out Superlawyer Rudy Giuliani For Laundering Russian Propaganda

How does this guy still have a license to practice law?

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Giuliani meets with Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Photo provided by Derkach’s press office.

Yesterday the CIA, DHS, FBI, INR, NSA, the Treasury Department and the National Intelligence Council spoke with one voice to say that the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani was a prime conduit for Putin’s propaganda to make its way into the American bloodstream during the 2020 election.

Yeah, don’t faint.

That picture up there is of our man Roodles with Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, who was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in September 2020 as “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services” who had “waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, spurring corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the United States designed to culminate prior to election day.”

As part of an effort to discredit then-candidate Joe Biden, Giuliani spent two years serving up Derkach’s nonsensical corruption allegations about Biden and his son as part of a campaign waged by the Russian government to get Trump re-elected.  According to the unclassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections, “President Putin and other senior Russian officials were aware of and probably directed Russia’s influence operations against the 2020 US presidential elections,” and “Putin had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach.”

[Andriy] Derkach, [Konstantin] Kilimnik, and their associates sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences. These Russian proxies met with and provided materials to Trump administration–linked US persons to advocate for formal investigations; hired a US firm to petition US officials; and attempted to make contact with several senior US officials. They also made contact with established US media figures and helped produce a documentary that aired on a US television network in late January 2020.

January 2020? What are the odds that they mean this “documentary” that Giuliani produced with One America News’s Chanel Rion, in which they jetted around Eastern Europe while pretending they were being pursued by George Soros, in the flesh.

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Here’s a still of Rion and Giuliani interviewing Derkach.

And here’s Rion gratefully accepting “evidence pertaining to six criminal cases in Ukraine involving the Bidens, contradicting the lemming media’s claim that the Bidens are innocent of all crimes.”

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Remember that time when Giuliani went to Ukraine and uncovered shocking evidence that Rep. Adam Schiff was in on a scheme to loot the Ukrainian economy by means of publicly traded Franklin Templeton mutual funds?

What’s Ukrainian for, “Haha, Oleksiy, we can tell this idiot absolutely anything and he’ll take it as the word of God?”

But if there’s one intelligence source Rudy is skeptical of, it’s the US government.

“The chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50,” he told the Daily Beast in October.

“My guess is that George Soros is behind this counter-offensive… because he wants to create a socialist country,” Giuliani continued. “He’d like to see us collapse and see us taken over by the international… whatever.” Later he speculated that sanctions imposed by Trump’s own Treasury Department were “an intelligence ploy to try to create problems for Trump—because Derkach could probably bury Obama.”

All this from a member of the bar in good standing! For the time being, anyway.

Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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