Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Justice Department Is Now Inviting Foreign Interference in 2020

William Barr lays out the welcome mat for political attacks from outside the U.S.

May 14, 2019 at 1:00 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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Rudolph Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s private lawyer, has been soliciting a foreign investigation of the president’s political opponents.

Though he has been temporarily shamed out of making a trip to Ukraine, Giuliani has met multiple times with a Ukrainian prosecutor. And he has made it clear that the Trump forces, who publicly requested and privately accepted assistance from Russian agents in 2016, are prepared to broaden their international outreach in the 2020 campaign. It’s unknown what exactly Giuliani is offering in return for this valuable political gift.