President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, acknowledging he played a major role in pushing former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch out of her job, claims he did so because she's "corrupt."
His comments came Monday night during an interview on the Fox News show "The Ingraham Angle."
"I forced her out because she's corrupt," he said.
Fox News noted that Giuliani had said Yovanovitch was obstructing the investigation into Ukraine, Joe Biden, and Biden's son Hunter.
And in an interview with The New Yorker, Giuliani was quoted as saying he needed her "out of the way" because she would make the investigation into the bidens more "difficult for everybody."
Giuliani lashed out at his critics during his appearance on Fox News.
"Maybe they don't believe that there was, in fact, substantial corruption in Ukraine that went on for years and that the president of the United States, when he asked for an investigation, was doing his duty as president of the United States," he said.
"But what I uncovered there are two major schemes — one for $7.5 billion [and] the other for $5 billion in money laundering that went on all through the Obama administration. Part of it involved Joe Biden — the bribery part. It's a disgrace that he's not under investigation in America — maybe because our law enforcement is too afraid.
"When the president of the United States was asking the president of Ukraine to investigate, he was asking him to investigate crimes at the highest levels of both governments."
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