| ...
| Trump was warned that Giuliani was being targeted by
| Russian misinformation, but there's no evidence that this
| served as a deterrent. "Do what you want to do," one person
| familiar with the warnings said in summarizing them for The
| Post, "but your friend Rudy has been worked by Russian
| assets in Ukraine." Derkach would be sanctioned for his
| role in promoting misinformation less than a year later.
|
| In fact, not only did Trump not wave Giuliani away from the
| misinformation, he hyped it. He pledged that Giuliani's
| trip -- the one where he spoke with Shokin, Derkach and
| Dubinsky -- provided his attorney with "a lot of good
| information." There would be a report to Congress, Trump
| said, and to the attorney general, Barr.
| ...
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/trump-russia-guiliani-biden-ukraine/>

--bks