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Giuliani details conversations with Trump about Yovanovitch
In an interview with the New York Times, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, detailed his conversations with Trump about Maria Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador

to Ukraine who was recalled earlier this year.

The Times reports:[Giuliani] described how he passed along to Mr. Trump ‘a couple of times’ accounts about how [Yovanovitch] had frustrated efforts that could be politically helpful to Mr. Trump. They included

investigations involving former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Ukrainians who disseminated documents that damaged Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.

The president in turn connected Mr. Giuliani with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who asked for more

information, Mr. Giuliani said. Within weeks, Ms. Yovanovitch was recalled as ambassador at the end of April and was told that Mr. Trump had lost trust in her. ...

‘There’s a lot of reasons to move her,’ Mr. Giuliani said, asserting that his briefings of Mr. Trump and Mr. Pompeo most likely played a role in their decision to recall Ms. Yovanovitch.
‘I think my information did,’ he said. ‘I don’t know. You’d

have to ask them. But they relied on it.’

The Times’ story came the same day that the New Yorker published an article in which Giuliani was quoted as saying he wanted Yovanovitch “out of the way” to push for investigations into Biden and the 2016 election.