has trump asked the ukraine to interfere with the 2020 election

What he's being punished for today, as you mentioned, is interfering in the 2020 election, the U.S. And now the Treasury Department today says he's been working as a Russian agent pushing Russian interests for more than the last decade. PARKS: His name is Andriy Derkach, and he's a member of Ukraine's Parliament. NPR's Miles Parks covers voting and election security, and he joins us now.ĬHANG: So tell us more about this Ukrainian lawmaker. Separately, the company Microsoft disclosed a number of foreign cyberattacks. Today, the Treasury Department announced sanctions for a Ukrainian lawmaker for interfering in the 2020 race.

But this week, foreign interference, the topic we had been hearing so much about the past four years, is back in the spotlight. Vachon said Soros wrote a sizable check from his personal funds in fall 2017 to a new group, Democracy Integrity Project, started by a former FBI agent and Senate staffer Daniel Jones to continue “investigation and research into foreign interference in American elections and European elections.Lately, the big story around elections has been the pandemic and the efforts to increase voting by mail. But he did he confirm his boss supported the continued investigation of Russia collusion allegations against Trump well past 2016. Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Soros, deferred any comment about AntAC to the group. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted. The focus on AntAC - whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts - was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).

Any updated information can be found at the end of the column.

Editor’s note: John Solomon’s columns regarding Ukraine became a subject of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

Has trump asked the ukraine to interfere with the 2020 election