If you were writing this stuff as fiction people would say "No, that's just too stupid to be believable."  Rudy Giuliani was being paid to commit these crimes for the president by a Russian pal of Putin through a fake company called Fraud Guarantee, LLC, seriously...for real. He cashed a check or checks to pay for him flying around the world literally running a "shadow foreign policy" that benefited Trump and quite obviously the Russians from a fucking company called Fraud Guarantee. The president and his personal stooge lawyer were running a scheme, financed by Russian money to sell out our allies for their own personal benefit...and the benefit of a group of Republicans that wanted to take over the natural gas industry in Ukraine which is likely why Republicans fought to keep this from coming out and continued to back this moronic traitor Trump.  How does Rudy Giuliani go from being a prosecutor and well liked mayor of New York to being a guy cashing checks to commit crimes for a moron like Trump from a company called Fraud Guarantee? You always know when Trump points fingers at someone for some sort of criminal activity it is because he himself is actually committing those crimes.  All that dumb talk about the "deep state" turned out to be true but, of course, it was Trump that had created a "deep state" with Rudy, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pompeo, Gordon Sondland, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, and all the rest of his team of fucking nitwits. Putin must be laughing his goddamn ass off.  I have to think that Vlad may have had a hand in coming up with the idea that they would cut checks to finance Trump's  shadow foreign policy through Fraud Guarantee just so when it came out Trump would look like such a blatant idiot not even the dumbest person on the planet could miss that Trump was just his puppet.  I mean, WOW, are these guys fucking dumb.