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- The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a previously unseen letter that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, sent to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in May.
- In the letter, Giuliani requested a meeting with Zelensky and emphasized he was acting in his capacity as Trump's personal lawyer.
- One day before Giuliani wrote the letter, The New York Times reported that he wanted to meet with Ukrainian officials to discuss former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
- The president has said that his request for Ukraine to investigate the Bidens was linked to an interest in rooting out corruption, which is in the US's national interest.
- But Giuliani's letter directly undermines that, because it specifies he was acting as Trump's private attorney; in other words, he was representing the president's personal political interests, and not the country's interests.
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The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a trove of previously unseen documents that dramatically raise the stakes of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Among the documents is a letter that Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, sent to Ukraine's newly inaugurated president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in May 2019.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope See Also: SEE ALSO: Explosive new documents involving Rudy Giuliani and a Ukrainian associate show the shocking extent of Trump's pressure campaign  |