Posted on 01/15/2020 7:05:12 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas alleged in an interview Wednesday that President Trump threatened to withhold more than just military aid from Ukraine.
Parnas unleashed a slew of new accusations against the president, including that he, as a representative of Trump, gave Ukrainian officials a “very harsh message” that the U.S. would cut off all aid to the country if it did not announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
“The message was: It wasn’t just military aid. It was all aid,” he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “Basically the relationship would be sour. We would stop giving them any kind of aid.”
The associate to the president’s personal attorney said that he met with officials, including a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and made clear that he was there “on behalf of Rudy Giuliani and the president of the United States.”
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Maddow scores another 'meh'.
Zelensky said Trump didn’t 4 times, the last time he said in exasperation why are will still beating this dead horse?
Why? If this lying POS was over there, why was he meeting "on behalf" of Giuliani when Giuliani himself was there?
In his interview he did more to damage the Dems case than to help it. Yet the Shrill features this nugget. At least Faux got it right.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lev-parnas-rachel-maddow-trump-yovanovitch-ukraine-house-democrats
The fuse has been lit. The size of the political explosion is still to be seen.
Responses here will be categorized as follows: 1) Liar. 2) Crazy. 3) Unimportant. 4) What about ....!? 5) Boring. 6) Other
Lev Parnas - “Do you know who I am? I’m here ‘on behalf of Rudy Giuliani and the president of the United States.’
I am Speaking Ex Cathedra!”
Yawn.
I’ll take number 1.
He threatened to withhold two scoops of ice-cream from Zelensky, when he comes to the White House.
Parnas is cheese-in-the-maze folks.
I choose 1 and 5.
I heard that Trump threatened to go to Ukraine and cut off the heads of all those in that government and mount them on the White House fence.
So? He has that right. ALL foreign policy is quid pro quo. We ask and they ask for stuff.
Alleged, more hearsay.
Giuliani received all the corruption information on the Bidens in late 2017 before Joe Biden had even declared his candidacy. He never returned to the Ukraine until late last year after the impeachment inquiry had started. Other than giving Giuliani a contact for Vicktr Shokin the fired prosecutor Parnas had nothing to do with Rudy or Zelensky or Trump.
This is the new Michael Avenati. His lies can be easily refuted by Barr, Trump, and Giuliani although they probably don’t want to give him any publicity by acknowledging his baseless accusations.
This is all about the immediate goal of the witnesses. The rats have a set of goals leading to removal or driving Trump’s numbers down. The witnesses are the next step. This may do it because Mitch is not going to do what it would take to keep Mitch and his little gang from siding up with the rats.
Has not worked. PT more popular than ever.
I meant Mitt and his little gang.
Yes he is but I am just talking about the rats strategy and how it seems to be playing out.
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