How a desperate foreign official bumbled his way into the center of Trump’s impeachment crisis
, also supported “urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General’s office and judiciary.”
Except, by Lutsenko’s own admission, almost none of that is true. In a subsequent interview with the Ukrainian-language publication Babel, Lutsenko told a completely different story, according to multiple translations of the account. Lutsenko didn’t do himself any favors with Democrats when he suggested he knew bad things about Biden. He undercut himself with Trump by subsequently taking the allegations back at the moment the president and his allies most wanted them to stick. And he put his own country’s new president in a bind by leading the right-wing media, and therefore Trump, to believe Ukraine could find dirt on Biden if they’d just look.
By announcing an investigation and telling Solomon he had dirt on Biden, but not saying exactly what that dirt was, the prosecutor hoped he could buy himself some time. In that dream scenario, Trump and Giuliani would press Zelensky to keep the prosecutor on and keep the investigation going, and Lutsenko could slow-walk the investigation — always promising to eventually deliver on Biden — while burrowing into the Zelensky administration.
“I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair,” Trump says, according to the White House’s partial readout of the call. Zelensky responded: “The next prosecutor general will be 100% my person, my candidate.” In the readout, Trump never brings it up again, and Lutsenko was out of a job within weeks.reveals the bulk of the problem doesn’t rest with his own bullshitting, but with America’s severely malfunctioning bullshit detector.
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