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Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Rudy Giuliani stood to personally profit from a Ukrainian natural-gas business pushed by two associates who also aided his efforts there to launch investigations that could benefit President Trump, people familiar with the matter said.
Mr. Giuliani’s associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, pitched their new company, and plans for a Poland-to-Ukraine pipeline carrying U.S. natural gas, in meetings with Ukrainian officials and energy executives this year, saying the project had the support of the Trump administration, according to people briefed on the meetings. In many of the same meetings, the two men also pushed for assistance on investigations into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and alleged interference by Ukraine in the 2016 U.S. election, some of the people said.
In conversations that continued into this summer, Messrs. Parnas and Fruman told Ukrainian officials and others that Mr. Giuliani was a partner in the pipeline venture, which was a project of their company, Global Energy Producers, one of the people said. Another person said the men considered Mr. Giuliani a prospective investor in their company more broadly, but said the pitch was unsophisticated and exaggerated.
President Trump just couldn’t help himself.
As former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified about the successful smear campaign engineered against her by Trump allies and explained how intimidating it was to learn that Trump told the president of Ukraine that she was “bad news” and is “going to go through some things,” Trump decided she didn’t feel quite intimidated enough. So he tweeted this:
Whether this is technically witness tampering, it’s undeniably appalling. Even on Fox News, Ken Starr called Trump’s attack on Yovanovitch during her testimony “extraordinarily poor judgment.”
What it shows — as does all of the former ambassador’s testimony, along with lots of other evidence we have seen — is that Trump has been running a thugocracy, one in which the president talks and acts like a Mafiosi and so do the people who have the greatest influence over him.
President Trump makes extraordinary claims about the success of the Right to Try law, which was designed to give terminally ill people access to experimental medical treatments before they’ve been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. “I tell you, it’s a miracle — so many people have been saved,” he said at a rally in Lake Charles, La., last month, describing how desperately ill people were, thanks to him, able to access the work of the “best doctors and labs, technicians in the world.” When he signed the law in May 2018, he used even more sweeping language: “We will be saving … thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands” of lives. The Trump 2020 campaign has used the law to promote the idea that the GOP is “the party of health care.”
Unfortunately, Right to Try appears to be helping very few people. The “incredible” transformation that Trump described in Louisiana is a fantasy: Right to Try mainly succeeds at giving its political backers a cheap public relations victory, even as they exploit the hopes of dying Americans.
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It’s true that the “expanded access” pathway isn’t perfect. Ethical-review boards sometimes raise unnecessary objections to allowing people to access experimental drugs; the standards they apply could be made more consistent, and extending legal protections to drugmakers that allow such access makes sense. But Right to Try has done little, if anything, to increase access to investigational drugs, and it’s a cruel falsehood to tell terminally ill people that the law has led to hundreds or thousands of “miraculous” recoveries.
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