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When will Red Rudy Douchebag be subpoenaed, comrade? CSNY It's all Rudy Giuliani's fault \| A timeline of the Trump-Giuliani Ukraine scheme. By AMANDA LUZ HENNING SANTIAGO SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 Over the past week, a plot to pressure Ukraine to help sway the 2020 presidential election in President Donald Trump’s favor, forged largely by the president’s personal attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has begun to unravel. Most recently, on Tuesday evening, The Washington Post posted a report detailing how Giuliani orchestrated a massive scheme to get Ukraine to comply with his and the president’s demands to unearth information about former Vice President Joe Biden, in exchange for $250 million in military aid to fend off Russia – already approved by Congress – which Trump had halted for leverage. On September 19, both the Post and The New York Times reported that a whistleblower made a complaint that Trump had made inappropriate promises to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Last month, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs announced that it would be launching an investigation into a possible “scheme,” involving both Giuliani and Trump, to pressure Ukraine into helping the president get reelected. And during an appearance on "Cuomo Prime Time” last Thursday, Giuliani admitted to asking Ukraine to investigate former Biden and his son Hunter Biden – though he initially denied doing so. Following Giuliani’s admission and mounting pressure from many representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday afternoon the opening of an impeachment inquiry. Here’s a timeline of how Giuliani attempted to sway Ukraine into investigating Biden: March: Giuliani begins pursuing staff changes in the U.S.’s Ukraine embassy After the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III’s special investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Giuliani began looking into changing up the U.S.’s Ukraine embassy’s staff – setting his sights on Marie Yovanovitch, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, according to the Post. He also began pushing for a meeting with Zelensky around this time and reportedly had his own proxies stationed in Ukraine. April 7: Giuliani suggests Biden had an inappropriate relationship with Ukraine The former mayor claimed that when he was vice president, Joe Biden had pushed for the removal of Viktor Shokin, in 2016 – a top Ukranian prosecutor. Shokin been looking into Burisma, a Ukranian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden sat. However, multiple Western governments and international organizations were calling for Shokin’s firing because of his alleged corruption and Shokin had stopped investigating Burisma two years earlier. April: Giuliani meets with Zelensky Giuliani first met with Zelensky in April, according to the Post, prior to the newly-elected official being sworn into office in May. May 9: Yovanovitch is ousted Yovanovitch was ousted from her position, following accusations from Giuliani, who alleged she was involved in exposing Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s crimes of federal bank and tax fraud. Manafort was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison, back in March. Giuliani also falsely alleged that Yovanovitch, a career foreign service officer, was working for liberal billionaire George Soros. Soros is Jewish and false allegations that he is the mastermind of complex conspiracies are a staple of right-wing, anti-Semitic politics. July 25: Trump calls Zelensky During a phone call between Trump and Zelensky, the president asked the Ukranian president to work with Giuliani on an investigation into Biden’s son eight times, according to the Wall Street Journal. On Wednesday, the White House released a transcript – which is noted as being “not a verbatim transcript” – of his call with Zelensky, in which he urges the Ukranian president to work with Giuliani on the investigation. August: Giuliani meets with Zelensky’s senior aides in Madrid Giuliani cancelled his trip to the Ukraine on May 10, amid criticism, after it was discovered that he was planning to urge the Ukranian government to provide him with details about Biden’s son’s involvement with a Ukranian gas company. "I'm convinced from what I've heard from two very reliable people tonight that the president (Zelensky) is surrounded by people who are enemies of the president (Trump), and people who are -- at least (in) one case -- clearly corrupt and involved in this scheme," Giuliani told Fox News, announcing the cancellation of his trip. However, in August, Giuliani met with Andriy Yermak, one of Zelensky’s senior aides in Madrid, according to the Journal. The newspaper also indicated that Giuliani met with someone from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office in Paris, in June. September 9: House announces investigation into Giuliani-Trump Ukraine scheme The House Committee on Foreign Affairs launches an investigation into a possible Giuliani-Trump “scheme” to pressure Ukraine into helping the president get reelected. September 19: Giuliani admits to putting pressure on Ukraine to dig up Biden dirt During an appearance on "Cuomo Prime Time” last Thursday, Giuliani admitted to asking Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.