Lev Parnas to be Interviewed by Rachel Madow/MSNBC at 9 PM EST

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  1. Esperance

    Esperance Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The first thing that Trump asked for was the Crowdstrike server. Not the DNC server. Admiral Rogers has been working closely with Durham.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news...durham-investigation-into-trump-russia-probe/

    Giuliani already tracked down the money trail. Gazprom wasn't all that stealthy in sending it through Latvia. 27-trump-transcript.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.png

    The Crowdstrike server is currently sitting in a forensic lab / Fort Gordon.
     
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    Parnas adds nothing by his own admission.

    By his own admission, Parnas never talked with Trump or Pence directly about anything involving the Ukraine.
    More hearsay from a guy who was with Giuliani as an interpreter.

    Why would the Senate add more hearsay?

    The only thing that Parnas stated that was relevant was that Yovanovitch did stop the Shokin visa.
    Yovanovitch had better hope no one follows up on her verbal list.
     
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    SDNY... Money from who knows where. His sentence can't be all that long to begin with. 5 years max, but likely a fine and about 9 months.

    The other issue is that Parnas is a US citizen so there is no foreign interference case to be made. Unlike Christopher Steele who is a Brit.
     
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    SDNY is part of Barrs DOJ.
     
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    ….uh...yeah, It was Transported by bigfoot courier in the subterranian caves of the insectoid race that have lived here since the Dinosaurs.....who were actually aliens from Dexatron Omaga V
     
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    Why would anyone want the crowdstrike server?
     
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    Another 'smoking gun' firing blanks.
     
  8. JCS

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    He bragged Shokin's removal happened right away, and wanted to take sole credit for it. I wouldn't doubt, however, that parliament voted to remove Shokin (three months later) in order to retain U.S./international aid & support.
     
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    (1) You said Shokin was removed within 6 hours after Biden's demands, which is not true. Biden presented his demands to the Ukrainian govt. in December 2015. Shokin was removed 3 months later on March 29, 2016 by parliamentary vote.

    (2) Burisma investigations were not only dormant under Shokin, but also no investigation of Burisma was begun by Shokin. Many U.S. & foreign officials had wanted him removed because of his passive stance on corruption. The European Union praised Shokin's dismissal due to a "lack of tangible results" of his office's investigations, and also because people in Shokin's office were themselves being investigated. Not one person was indicted for corruption during his entire 14-month tenure.

    (3) There's no evidence Biden ever mentioned Burisma in his demands. He was acting as point-man on behalf of Obama's foreign policy, having made frequent trips to Ukraine...and was also leading a widespread consensus in asking for Shokin's removal. He was to pressure the Ukraine govt. to take a harder line against corruption, which (at least according to Biden) included firing Shokin, or else risk losing $1 billion in aid.

    (4) The Obama administration actually supported investigations into corruption. This included looking into the gas company because the owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, was close to the ousted president and they had both fled the country before the Bidens became regular visitors.
    https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered

    (5) The key figure in pushing the corruption narrative appears to be Giuliani. He has been in contact with Ukraine multiple times and urged officials there to look into the Bidens. The story has been percolating for the past few months. Giuliani has repeatedly tweeted about it and discussed it on TV.
    https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered
     
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    Wrong. The aliens were from Dexatron Omaga VI...not Omaga V. Omaga V was destroyed when Dexatron Omaga VI's emperor blasted it after Trump groped the emperor's alien daughter after going to "shake her hand", allegedly "unaware" her hands were actually her genitalia. The Andromeda Council is reviewing the matter...but unfortunately Mitch McNoggins and Bill Barf from Alpha Ghetto X will be in charge of the investigation.
     
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    The same reason why they wanted the whistleblower & Biden to testify...to make it look as though it was important.
     
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    You mean the Sondland that admitted he presumed? Parnas ‘compelling’ statements like he knew, he had to know, it’s not beyond comprehension. Evidence? LOL
     
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    Changed my mind - let’s hear from their ace in the hole Parnas on the stand.

    Parnas “Avenatti 2.0” will get turned into a piñata on the stand by a real attorney.

    His answers to the MSNBC softball questions were sketchy, but let’s make the Dems happy and give them Parnas for Hunter Biden.

    Get your popcorn ready, this should be interesting.
     
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    If you believe Parnas, YOU certainly can believe Trump.
     
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    Plus there is no requirement to be truthful on TV.
     
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    It doesn't work the other way around like that. Trump is the gold standard for dishonesty.
     
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    An interesting excerpt from the Parnas-Maddow interview. Parnas said...

    My only objective is to get the truth out because I never thought I was doing anything wrong. I still, you know, I regret certain things that I did, you know, hurting the ambassador, because that was not something, but it was part of like, when you’re in a war, you think like casualties and stuff like that, it’s bad to say, but it was, and I keep saying it was like, you know, being in a cult, and when they say organized crime, I think trump is like a cult leader. And right now, the scary part, and that’s what I keep mentioning and people don’t understand is there’s a lot of Republicans that would go against him. The only reason, if you’ll take a look, and you know very well because you have been following, the difference between why trump is so powerful now, and he wasn’t as powerful in ’16 and ’17, he became that powerful when he got William Barr. People are scared. Am I scared? Yes, and because I think I’m more scared of our own justice department than of these criminals right now.
     
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    If being truthful was a requirement on MSNBC, there would be no MSNBC.

    If they are not lying, they are not trying.
     
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    LOL, like Avenatti and Cohen?
     
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    Cohen worked for Trump. Strange that Avenatti didn't. They would've gotten along well since they rival one another.
     
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    Goodness. That incoherent rambling sounds like something Trump would come up with.
     
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    The audio always sounds better.
     
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    Geez. I’ll take your word for it. :)
     
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    But they do slip up once in a while and reveal something by accident.
     

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