Rudy Giuliani Wednesday said he was read the classified transcript of the call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine before its official release Wednesday, and that there was no mention of military aid being blocked or that there was "any condition" for any information gotten for former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
"When you read this thing, there's no mention of $250 million," Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "There's no mention of military aid, there's no quid pro quo. The only one who can be pressured here is the president of the Ukraine. The president of the Ukraine says I wasn't pressured. End of case. Over."
Show co-host Brian Kilmeade interrupted to ask if Giuliani has read he transcript, which is to be declassified and released Wednesday.
“Let’s say it was read to me,” Giuliani said.
“The whole thing?” Kilmeade asked him.
“I hope so," he responded.
Giuliani also hinted that it may have been Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky who brought up Biden's name first.
“Maybe he didn’t bring it up," said Giuliani. "It could be possible the president of the Ukraine brought it up."
He also called the call "totally appropriate" and said Trump didn't tell Zelensky he had to investigate.
Biden, though, had pushed the Ukraine government to fire its general prosecutor, who was investigating an energy company that was paying large sums of money to a firm that employed Hunter Biden for a high sum of money.
"If you compare the two conversations, you'd say one seems perfectly appropriate and the other seems — and I’m not saying it is because he’s presumed innocent — seems like extortion and bribery much more clear than probably 10 that I prosecuted where I put people in jail for 20 years," Giuliani said.
Meanwhile, Biden didn't only push for the removal of the Ukraine prosecutor once, but several times, said Giuliani.
"It was several times," he said. "There are such things as phone records. But nobody ever asks Democrats for phone records. So now I think Joe Biden should release all his records as vice president."
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