WASHINGTON—President Trump said his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is planning to send a report to the attorney general and Congress on the information he gathered on a trip this week to Ukraine.
“He says he has a lot of good information,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Saturday as he left the White House for Florida. “He has not told me what he found,” he said, and then added: “I hear he has found plenty.”
Mr. Giuliani was in Budapest, Hungary, and in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, over the past week meeting with current and former Ukrainian prosecutors and politicians as part of his nearly yearlong push for Ukraine to conduct investigations that could politically benefit his client, Mr. Trump. While there, he helped conduct interviews for a series he is filming with One America News Network, a conservative news outlet.
The series is aimed at backing up allegations Mr. Giuliani has made of corruption by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son and of interference by Ukraine in the 2016 U.S. election, according to One America, which is funding the production. Mr. Trump asked Ukraine’s president to investigate those allegations during a July 25 phone call, alarming U.S. officials listening to the call and ultimately setting off the impeachment inquiry.
Allegations that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election are at odds with the findings of the U.S. intelligence community, which determined that Russia was behind the interference.
Mr. Biden, as vice president and the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, called for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who had once investigated a company where Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, served on the board. Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump have called that corrupt. The Bidens have denied wrongdoing.
Mr. Giuliani didn’t respond to a request for comment on whether he plans to make a report to Attorney General William Barr or to Congress. The Justice Department declined to comment.
Mr. Giuliani has previously said he wouldn’t testify to impeachment investigators and has declined to turn over documents.
If Mr. Giuliani were to send a report to Mr. Barr on his findings, it would draw the attorney general even further into the growing controversy surrounding the push for investigations in Ukraine.
On the July 25 call, Mr. Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with both Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Barr on investigations into Mr. Biden and election interference. A Justice Department spokeswoman said in September, when the White House released a rough transcript of that call, that Mr. Barr has had no communication with Ukraine.
Separately, Mr. Barr in May tapped John Durham, Connecticut’s top federal prosecutor, to investigate the origins of the counterintelligence probe into Russian election interference that was ultimately taken over by Robert Mueller, who was then special counsel. Among other matters, Mr. Durham’s investigation is examining any role Ukraine and other countries may have played in the counterintelligence probe in 2016, the Justice Department said in September.
The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee previously investigated whether Ukraine interfered in 2016 but found such claims meritless, according to a person familiar with the matter.
—Sadie Gurman contributed to this article.
Write to Rebecca Ballhaus at Rebecca.Ballhaus@wsj.com
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