Giuliani: Dems 'have walked into a trap'

The Democrats' investigations of President Trump's July phone call with the Ukrainian president could turn out to be "a gift to the American people that exposes corruption by a Democrat," contends Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer.

The Democrat in question, Giuliani told the Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham Tuesday night, is former vice president and current party presidential frontrunner Joe Biden.

"They have walked into a trap," Giuliani said.

"Maybe, just maybe, we will finally investigate a Democrat like we investigate a Republican."

He argued that President Trump's request of Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky that his government investigate Joe Biden was necessary because of evidence that Biden used the office of the vice president to benefit his son Hunter in China as well as Ukraine.

"It's a lot of money, Laura. It's not just Ukraine. It's a pattern of conduct. It's a very serious pattern of conduct."

The White House on Wednesday released a transcript of the July phone call that shows Trump asked for a review of Biden family dealings in the country but didn't leverage military aid as Democrats have charged.

Giuliani said he has records of laundered payments from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma to a Hunter Biden business account amounting to more than $3 million. And he referenced the 2013 trip to China aboard Air Force Two by Hunter and Joe Biden that was soon followed by a $1.5 billion deal for Hunter Biden's boutique firm with a subsidiary of the Chinese government's Bank of China.

The deal took place as the vice president was in negotiations with Beijing.

"If Biden gets away with the $1.5 billion, then we don't have justice in America," Giuliani said.

"It's an outrageous sale of the vice presidency. China paid for Joe Biden's office. China didn't invest in a drug-challenged son with $1.5 billion. They bought the vice president of the United States."

Ukrainian collusion?

The Washington Post quoted an unnamed U.S. official in a story Tuesday claiming Giuliani pursued a "shadow Ukraine agenda," inserting himself in U.S.-Ukraine relations.

Giuliani insisted he talked to Ukrainian officials only because the State Department asked him to do it.

"And then I reported everything back to them," he said.

Asked why the FBI didn't do it, Giuliani said the bureau "didn't do their job," noting a "prominent investigator" told him that for one year he was trying to get the information to the bureau.

"Maybe they're afraid they will expose a crooked agent," he said.

But why would President Trump's lawyer have an interest in what Joe Biden and his son were doing in Ukraine?

Giuliani explained that the prosecutor "that Biden helped to put in" dismissed a case against an organization "that was collecting false information about Donald Trump, about Paul Manafort, and feeding it to the Democratic National Committee."

The organization, he said, was run by left-wing billionaire financier George Soros.

Giuliani said he has statements from five Ukrainians who said they desperately tried to get the information to the FBI and they were blocked by the ambassador, who eventually was fired.

Giuliani said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., also told the Ukrainian president during the Obama administration that the U.S. would cut off aid if he didn't cooperate with Obama.

"That's a quid pro quo," Giuliani said. "That's threatening. Nancy Pelosi should be outraged."