That Ukraine project was helped along by the New York Times, which gave Giuliani the megaphone to plant this little smear, and it probably won't be the last time. Certainly the Times won't be the only news organization to do it. During the 2016 campaign, the Times and the Washington Post entered into a devil's bargain with a right-wing provocateur named Peter Schweizer, a Steve Bannon associate and current Breitbart editor, to publish a similarly distorted tale about Hillary Clinton called "Clinton Cash" that formed the basis for Donald Trump's "Crooked Hillary" meme. As it happens, Schweizer is behind the Biden Ukraine story as well. This time the Times didn't deal with him directly, but rather spread it through Giuliani, Trump's top hitman.