The former Ukraine prosecutor general says he repeatedly declined to investigate Joe Biden and his son, despite being pressured to do so by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. Yuri Lutsenko, the former prosecutor, said he had no evidence that the Bidens had broken any Ukrainian laws and told Rudolph Giuliani as much. “I told him I could not start an investigation just for the interests of an American official,” Lutsenko said. [LATimes]
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