Both Giuliani and Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American businessman who served as his fixer in Ukraine, confirmed that they sought tapes of Biden last year. ADTim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, declined to comment on the Ukraine tapes. Foreign interference reduxThe hunt by the president’s allies for the Biden tapes and their subsequent release have echoes of the 2016 campaign, when Trump publicly asked Russia to find emails of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Giuliani told The Post that his pursuit of the Biden-Poroshenko calls was aided by someone inside the State Department. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether Trump knew his lawyer was seeking tapes of Biden in Ukraine.

Source: Washington Post June 30, 2020 16:52 UTC