Philip Bump of the Washington Post gets straight to the point:

By early May 2019, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani must have looked like the international espionage equivalent of a wide-eyed tourist walking around with his wallet hanging out his back pocket. He’d announced his intention to travel to Ukraine and seek out derogatory information about Joe Biden, then a newly announced presidential candidate and someone well positioned to face President Donald Trump, then Giuliani’s boss, in the 2020 election. For any Russian officials interested in finding a conduit for misinformation that both cast their geopolitical rival Ukraine as corrupt and that bolstered Trump’s chances of reelection, Giuliani must have been an irresistible target.

A report released by the Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday strongly suggests that this is exactly what happened.

I didn’t need to read a report from the Intelligence Community to know this because it was completely obvious and I spent a good part of two years writing about Giuliani being a conduit of Russian disinformation that went straight to the president of the United States.

At one point, I called what Giuliani was doing the biggest scandal in the political history of the country, and I think that’s been borne out even if the reaction is strangely muted. He’s been a witting agent of a foreign power who has simultaneously looked at every turn to make a buck. I’m not going to through the history again right now. Follow the links if you need a refresher. I’ve never seen anyone more in similarly prominent position more in need of jail time than Giuliani, and I hope it doesn’t take too much longer for the Department of Justice to hand down a phone book’s worth of indictments.