The more we learn about President Trump's apparent shakedown of Ukraine, the worse thinks look for Trump's personal legal adviser Rudy Giuliani, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. "Since the original whistleblower report, Rudy has been on TV doing damage control, minus the control."
Trump's "three amigos" in the Ukraine fiasco — U.S. EU ambassador Gordon Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and U.S. Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker — have all fingered Giuliani as a key player in the pressure campaign to get Ukraine to pursue debunked conspiracy theories and politically motivated investigations of Democrats, Colbert noted, and now Giuliani is apparently the subject of a counterintelligence investigation that has already snared two of his Ukraine-linked business associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
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