Posted on 01/15/2020 2:04:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Well, this could get interesting.
MSNBC is teasing an interview tonight with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas tonight at 9PM Eastern. Apparently, Parnas and his lawyer will be on hand to dish dirt about Ukraine, Giuliani, and possibly President Trump.
Tonight!
9pm ET on MSNBC
Giuliani associate Lev Parnas breaks his silence as he and his lawyer sit down with Rachel Maddow. pic.twitter.com/jHH8EWOQbB— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 15, 2020
If you aren’t familiar with Parnas, he’s a crook who’s currently under indictment for unrelated matters and has been prostituting himself to the government for some time of leniency. After initially saying he had nothing worthwhile to offer, he’s now claiming to hold secrets that could blow up the impeachment trial. Parnas is also the author of a hand written note publicized recently by Adam Schiff, which purports to show Parnas being involved in getting the Ukrainians to announce investigations into the Bidens.
Here’s a handwritten note from Lev Parnas.
“Get Zelensky to announce that the Biden case will be investigated”https://t.co/FBzImZUYfu pic.twitter.com/uECIOvYPrx
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) January 14, 2020
My impression of that note is that there’s nothing really there. It’s undated, uncorroborated, and involves no mention of Donald Trump. Further, we already knew the President wanted an announcement of an investigation into Burisma and Hunter Biden’s ties. We also know there was no military aid attached to the request as originally asserted. Pretending that there’s something new here is a pretty disingenuous, but par for the course for how Schiff has handled this. Further, there is nothing inherently wrong or illegal about requesting such an investigation, especially given how corrupt Ukraine has shown itself to be and the smoke surrounding the younger Biden’s employment with Burisma. The fact that one of the Bidens is running for president does not give them a shield from being looked into over wrongdoing. Donald Trump, of all people, knows that very well given his treatment in 2016.
So will Parnas share anything massive tonight? There are reasons to be skeptical.
Parnas is choosing to appear on Rachel Maddow’s show instead of a major news program. You know what you don’t do if you have evidence that will get a president removed from office? Go on a hack conspiracy theorist’s show that has shown itself to be wholly not credible in every respect. Further, Parnas knows Maddow will feed he and his lawyer softballs, another sign that he needs kid gloves applied vs. having solid information. If Parnas had the goods, he’d be talking to a more reputable source.
Also, Parnas has had his requests for cooperation mostly rebuffed by prosecutors. Why is that? If he had the goods on someone as big as the President of the United States, don’t you think the pitbulls in the SDNY would be all over it? They gave Michael Cohen a sweetheart deal, letting him slide on major crimes, on just the promise that he could provide some information on Trump. The idea that Parnas is sitting on the golden ticket but can’t get anyone but Maddow to listen to him doesn’t pass the smell test.
Lastely, as pointed out early in this article, the evidence Parnas has given to the Congress has been weak at best. Am I really supposed to believe he’s saving the good stuff for Maddow, who has no ability to offer him any leniency on anything?
Come on. We all know what this is really going to be. Parnas is going to make some unsupported, yet salacious claims while MSNBC blows it up as a nuclear bomb going off. In the end though, there will be nothing major there because if he had something major, he’d have shared it by now to save his own skin. Parnas is a desperate man and has ever reason to lie at this point. If he can’t provide direct, verifiable evidence of his whatever he claims, he should be ignored.
But the media have no standards, so get ready for them to lose their minds tomorrow.
By the time Madcow’s got it, it’s jumped the shark already.
She will never let go ..........................
Menendez calls for 'immediate briefing' on Parnas-Yovanovitch documents
Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for an “immediate briefing” from the administration on communications released by House Democrats Tuesday suggesting former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was under surveillance by Trump associates before her removal.
“These disturbing messages indicate that Ambassador Yovanovitch’s movements may have been closely tracked, for at a minimum, over a series of days in late March 2019. Notably, this was the same time frame that a packet of disinformation, the contents of which smeared Ambassador Yovanovitch, made its way into the hands of senior officials at the State Department, including the Secretary, and as a series of articles were published that made false attacks against her,” Menendez wrote in a letter to Assistant Secretary of State Michael Evanoff.
In the records released by lawmakers on Tuesday, Republican congressional candidate Robert Hyde texted Lev Parnas, an associate of President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who was indicted last year, “Wow. Can’t believe Trumo [sic] hasn’t fired this bitch. I’ll get right in that” in reference to Yovanovitch.
SNIP
Associate is a very broad term.
Remember when she claimed to have Trumps tax returns and it was a single page from like 1994 ?
Good times..
Associate is a very broad term.
Exactly, they could have bought a used car from Giuliani and still be labeled an “associate”
The demon cats are complete and other losers that live in fantasyland that Theyll get the public you agree with their lies
No chance , Clancy !
All of this has to of course be in the context of their three-year witch hunt - Russia Russia Russia !! everything all day!!!
Then the special counsel. No knock raids in middle of night. Nothing
Then the highly anticipated 683 page Mueller report!!!
and then her Schlichter himself coming up and delivering the worst performance that I’ve ever seen in front of a camera. ( ok maybe ballsey Ford ).
So again with madcow- we’re really only talking about liberals now even with these people who hate Trump with a passion
Even with THEM. they have no credibility! It’s now hope against hope !
When is the viewing Public going to catch on to the Lesbian Maddow and her penchant for false sensational claims and so-called Block Buster Interviews?
Rick Maddcow has untreatable TDS, and sees Trump conspiracies in everything. A real loser!
Bull dyke liberal lezzies are that way.
It’s the tipping point. The beginning of the end. The walls are closing in on Donald Trump.
I thought the whole impeachment circus was about Pres. Trump asking the Ukraine President to investigate Biden. Now it's back to Russia working for Trump? Do these people not realize that Russia and the Ukraine are enemies? How did Trump magically get the Ukraine and Russia at the same time to support his alleged election cheating? Being a geo-political junkie, even I am getting lost with their daily unsubstantiated claims. Sheesh.
They keep the rope-a-dope going, but it always comes back to smack them in the face. Trump will win in the end. Why do they even bother?
That handwritten note on the hotel notepad will finally be the thing that brings down Trump.
Yea, Parnas is this years Blasey-Ford.. Liar liar pants on fire....
Anyone can fabricate a note like this and it says nothing that implicates Giuliani or Trump in anything. What is revealing is how successful Joe Biden’s people have been at keeping Giuliani off the cable shows including Fox. It must take some real clout to scare the crap out of this many media executives.
I would love to see Giuliani called to testify in the impeachment trial about the evidence that was dropped in his lap by the Ukrainians regarding Andrea Chalupa and the Bidens. It was the genesis of the information that Trump shared with Zelensky on the phone and completely justifies the request for cooperation with the US AG in an investigation.
Of course this will never happen for multiple reasons not the least of which is that the entire sorry impeachment scam is really aimed at obstructing justice and preventing any of the Biden and State Department corruption from ever seeing the light of day.
Robert Menendez sitting in judgement over anyone. You just can’t make this stuff up.
....... I didn't know Balki was on MSNBC
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