Bolton says Trump told him to set up Giuliani meeting in Ukraine: report

President Trump urged former national security adviser John Bolton last May to put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in contact with Rudy Giuliani, according to a report on the unpublished manuscript of Bolton’s forthcoming book.

The New York Times reported that Trump gave Bolton the directive during an Oval Office meeting in May 2019. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who has been leading the president’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial, were also present, Bolton wrote. Bolton wrote that he did not make the phone call.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/480898-bolton-says-trump-told-him-to-set-up-giuliani-meeting-in-ukraine