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After backlash, Giuliani cancels Ukraine trip meant to ‘meddle’ in investigations to help Trump

President Trump asked for and received help from the Russian government in his 2016 election victory. And despite all that has followed, his lawyer planned to head to neighboring Ukraine for more potential political assistance.

That was the almost impossible-to-ignore takeaway from former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s remarkable interview with the New York Times’s Kenneth P. Vogel. Giuliani was going to Ukraine to pressure the government to investigate cases that Giuliani himself admitted have bearing on Trump’s political fate. And he didn’t even really trying to disguise the purpose.

But now, after a backlash, he’s canceled the whole thing.

View the complete May 11 article by Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.

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