DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats building a case for impeachment are working to prove that when it came to pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democrats, Rudy Giuliani was Donald Trump’s brain…After a week of depositions from key figures in the impeachment inquiry, Democrats are coalescing around a push to prove that Trump committed impeachable offenses at least partly by showing that Trump had intimate knowledge of and directed Giuliani’s plans, goals and tactics. Buttressing their strategy is a modest but intensifying public outcry among Republicans over Giuliani’s shadow diplomacy , in which the former New York City mayor sought to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and revive a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. And it’s not just Democrats like Swalwell who represent safe liberal districts.”
–Andrew Desiderio and Kyle Cheney, “Democrats are zeroing in on Rudy Giuliani to impeach Trump,” Politico, October 18, 2019 5:29 pm