Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani insisted Monday that it was fake news to say President Donald Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate ex-Vice President Joe Biden on the threat of cutting aid — but he admitted he couldn't back that up "100%."
"That was a false story," Giuliani told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo after she asked him if Trump had pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call earlier this year.
"100%?" Bartiromo asked him.
"I can't tell you it's 100%," Giuliani, who serves as Trump's personal lawyer, replied.
The telephone call is reportedly the subject of an unreleased whistleblower's report. The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Trump in July pushed Zelensky about eight times to work with Giuliani on investigating Biden, as "people in Washington" wanted to know if the former mayor's claims that Biden had acted improperly while he was still in office are true.
Giuliani on Monday told Bartiromo that there are "three tapes" in which "two prosecutors and another person in the Ukraine" said Biden intervened to get his son out of trouble, and "I'm going to have more facts tomorrow that proves it conclusively."
He also alleged that Hunter Biden had obtained millions of dollars in laundered money funneled through Ukraine through several channels to the United States and that Joe Biden, now the frontrunner in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, had pressured the Ukraine government to fire a prosecutor in the case of a gas company making the payments.
Giuliani further told Bartiromo that Ukraine Foreign Minister Vadym Prystalko denied that Trump had pressured the country's president.
"The key fact is there are three people accusing Biden of wrongdoing and they have on the front page that he wasn't accused of wrongdoing," said Giuliani. "They have no idea about money laundering. They could have found out about it by looking at the tapes."
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