Trump’s lawyer and the Venezuelan president: How Giuliani got involved in back-channel talks with Maduro
12/30/19
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from The Washington Post,
12/30/19:
The international call came in September 2018, after months of rising tension between the United States and Venezuela, a key strategic player in South America.
On one end of the line was Venezuela’s socialist president, the pariah leader of a disintegrating economy whom President Trump’s administration was seeking to isolate.
On the other end: the U.S. president’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani and then-Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.).
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