After private White House meeting, Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said he was on a 'secret mission' f

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Source: CNN

By Vicky Ward
Updated 9:11 PM ET, Fri November 15, 2019

New York (CNN)Among the many guests who had their pictures taken with President Donald Trump at the White House's annual Hanukkah party last year were two Soviet-born businessmen from Florida, Lev  Parnas and Igor  Fruman. 

In the picture, which Parnas posted on social media, he and Fruman are seen smiling alongside Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal lawyer.

At one point during the party that night, Parnas and Fruman slipped out of a large reception room packed with hundreds of Trump donors to have a private meeting with the President and Giuliani, according to two acquaintances in whom Parnas confided right after the meeting.

Word of the encounter in the White House last December, which has not been previously reported, is further indication that Trump knew Parnas and Fruman, despite Trump publicly stating that he did not on the day after the two men were arrested at Dulles International Airport last month.

Eventually, according to what Parnas told his confidants, the topic turned to Ukraine that night. According to those two confidants, Parnas said that "the big guy," as he sometimes referred to the President in conversation, talked about tasking him and Fruman with what Parnas described as "a secret mission" to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/parnas-trump-special-mission-ukraine/index.html

[SKKY]

1. For the love of all that is good, please let this be true.

[FirstLight]

2. Pence was there too, whether he has "plausible deniability" at a backroom meeting...

remains to be seen


can't wait for the whole ship to catch on fire

[mpcamb]

3. Take him down first.

[Rainbow Droid]

4. The fire has already spread belowdecks and now can not be extinguished.

The ship is going down and it only remains to be seen how many go down with it.

[dweller]

6. they are using the firelight

to rearrange the deck chairs ...

✌🏼

[Rainbow Droid]

8. While denying that fire even exists at all.

[FirstLight]

10. totally...I cannot wait

for the worst of them to have to face "trial by fire"

Which, for irony's sake...is how they took down "uppity women" and anyone else who dared to call out truth to power and corruption

[Talitha]

5. Timing is everything.

For the first 2 years of shitler's coup, his repugs/repigs controlled the Senate and House. If Hunter Biden was an issue before shitler took the oath, WHY didn't his minions do anything about it during 2017/2018? Yeah, I know... it's a nothingberder.

[DesertRat]

7. This is quite a news day!

[Corgigal]

9. We have the dumbest,

most immature president ever.

Everyday the world doesn’t end glowing, another lucky day for all living kind.

[ck4829]

23. We really do

[UpInArms]

11. The "Big Guy"

Is a freaking mobster ...

Impeachment/Removal/Imprisonment

It cannot happen quickly enough

[dustyscamp]

12. Agent Double O Dummie

International Man of Tomfoolery

[reACTIONary]

19. +10 nt

[ck4829]

22. Ha

[UpInArms]

13. Trump throwing Parnas under the coffee boy bus might have been another self inflicted cut

However he felt back then, those two sources say Parnas now feels quite differently about Trump. The day after Parnas and Fruman were arrested on October 9 and charged with criminal campaign finance violations, Trump publicly denied ever knowing them, a move that was enormously upsetting to Parnas, according to three sources close to him.

"I don't know those gentlemen," Trump told reporters from the South Lawn of the White House on October 10. "Maybe they were clients of Rudy. You'd have to ask Rudy, I just don't know." 

In the weeks since his arrest, Parnas has become disenchanted with Trump, these sources say. He's even signaled that he's willing to cooperate with the Congressional impeachment inquiry. Parnas' lawyer Bondy said his client would comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents and testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry in a manner that would allow him to protect his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Prosecutors allege Parnas and Fruman illegally funded Republican politicians and campaigns with money from foreign nationals. Prosecutors also say the pair funneled $325,000 into Trump's flagship super PAC, America First Action from an unknown source.

[ck4829]

24. So many coffee boys

[Mc Mike]

14. It's not secret if you talk about it, dolt.

That's the level of competency we've come to expect from a handpicked henchman of twitler's.

[ck4829]

21. That sounds so Archer-esque

"Hey... hey, I'm a secret agent!"

[Mc Mike]

26. They are a bunch of cartoon characters, just not as amusing. n t

[Vinca]

15. Lev is going to give up the goods on Don. Can you imagine this scenario for a moment?

The POTUS at a function and leaving it to have a private meeting with 2 thugs and a ghoul? And I'm sure this isn't the strangest thing we'll learn about today.

[Brainfodder]

18. Makes you wonder what other skeletons.... and whatabout the tax returns!

Meanwhile what crimes are they about to flaunt today/tomorrow?

Is Roger Stone offering to sing yet?

[yellowcanine]

16. If true that would be a smoking howitzer.

[ck4829]

25. Yep

[BootinUp]

17. It's amazing how much and how quickly

The evidence is piling up.

[ck4829]

20. K&R