KIEV, Ukraine — On May 16, Andrii Telizhenko, a 29-year-old former Ukrainian diplomat, bonded with Rudy Giualiani in New York over their shared love of cigars and Ukrainian intrigue. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, told Telizhenko that he was collecting evidence to give to the FBI about the Democratic Party and Ukraine.
“Telizhenko has direct evidence,” Giuliani told Fox News in early October, not long after the news broke of a whistleblower complaint about political interference in Ukraine’s foreign assistance. Telizhenko, Giuliani continued, was one of “six witnesses who can give direct, admissible evidence of Ukrainian collusion” that spanned everything from the Steele dossier to alleged corruption by Joe Biden.
What is known about Telizhenko’s background is based on his own description. He grew up, he says, in Ottawa, Canada, where his father was a diplomat. Telizhenko bounced around the world as a kid, moving from Canada to Egypt to the United States and then back to Ukraine. In the meantime, then-Vice President Biden was pressuring the Ukrainian government to fire Shokin. The American ambassador in Kiev and other top State Department officials made it clear for months that the U.S. couldn’t keep giving aid to Ukraine with Shokin in office, and on March 29, 2016, Shokin was fired.
“I am working for the DNC,” Chalupa purportedly told Telizhenko during a meeting at Leopold’s Kafe, an upscale restaurant in Georgetown. “I have this story that I am working on — Trump, Manafort … I want to look for any information, if you can find any dirt on his campaign office that you can give me to take him off the elections,” Chalupa said, according to Telizhenko.
Telizhenko says he tried “to report it back to Kiev,” which angered the ambassador. “There were big tensions, and basically I resigned,” he said. A month later in a January 2017 Politico story about Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump, Telizhenko aired out his allegations that the embassy colluded with the Democratic Party. Telizhenko’s claim gave Trump and conservative allies a powerful counterpunch, particularly after special counsel Robert Mueller began his investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
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