House impeachment manager Sylvia Garcia homes in on Rudy Giuliani’s political crusades carried out with Trump’s ‘knowledge and consent’

Garcia is a representative from Congress and is one of two freshman Democrats that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped to serve as impeachment managers. Garcia is a lawyer and a former judge.

During her remarks, Garcia zeroed in on several days in early May 2019, shortly after Zelensky was elected president in Ukraine

The Texas congresswoman mentioned, in particular, a New York Times article published on May 9 in which Giuliani discussed his plans to meet with Ukrainian officials to discuss former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter.

Specifically, he wanted the Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter Biden's involvement as a board member of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.

"We're not meddling in an election, we're meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do," Giuliani told The Times when asked whether by going to Ukraine and pressing for the inquiry he was inviting foreign interference in the 2020 election.

He also acknowledged that he was not acting as an agent of the US government but as Trump's personal counsel, telling The Times, "This isn't foreign policy."

The next day, on May 10, Giuliani wrote a letter to Zelensky and said he wanted to meet in person on May 13 and May 14. He had his associate, Parnas, send it to Zelensky on May 11.

"Just to be precise, I represent him as a private citizen, not as President of the United States," Giuliani wrote. "This is quite common under American law because the duties and privileges of a President and a private citizen are not the same."

The letter "made it clear that Giuliani was representing President Trump as a private citizen, and that he was working with President Trump's knowledge and consent," Garcia said.