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- An associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani spelled out in a handwritten note his key objective for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky: Announce a criminal probe into Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.
- "Get Zalensky to Annonce that the Biden case will be Investigated," Lev Parnas wrote on notepaper from the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel in Vienna, Austria.
- The note was part of a batch of evidence handed by Parnas and his attorneys to House impeachment investigators, and released Tuesday.
- It was not dated, but Parnas had told Giuliani in July 2019 he was traveling to Vienna.
- It underlines that the key objective of Parnas, who had been working with Giuliani, was to secure damaging information on Biden and his family.
- Trump's critics say the president abused his position for personal gain in the 2020 presidential election, while his defenders say his key concern was to address corruption in Ukraine.
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A top associate of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of President Donald Trump, wrote on Ritz-Carlton notepaper that his chief objective in Ukraine was for its president to announce a criminal probe into Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden and his son.
"Get Zalensky to Annonce that the Biden case will be Investigated," Lev Parnas said in the misspelled note from a branch of the luxury hotel chain in Vienna, Austria.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: |