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Why Hasn’t Trump Thrown Rudy Giuliani Under the Bus?

Freezing out his attorney might make political sense for the president, but it would also require him to admit something went wrong in Ukraine.
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Yesterday was a bad day for Rudy Giuliani, which means it was a bad day for his client, Donald Trump. This is hardly new. Each day of the impeachment inquiry seems to bring new, unflattering evidence about Giuliani’s skullduggery in Ukraine and the extent to which it infuriated and perplexed U.S. officials, strained the American-Ukrainian relationship, and ultimately led to an impeachment inquiry into the president.

Surveying transcripts of depositions with Ambassadors Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland, released yesterday, ’s Aaron Blake to be, as the phrase of the day has it,

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