Since he testified last week before the hilariously incompetent effort by the House GOP to weaponize its slim majority, Lev Parnas has been releasing evidence and documentation to support his account, which effectively ended any claimed legitimacy into Republicans’ investigations into Hunter Biden and Ukraine. The information links key players in a conservative plot to smear Joe Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election.
Posted on his social media account, Parnas included the video above showing Trump lawyer and future co-defendant Rudy Giuliani on a call purportedly with Viktor Shokin, the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine, who tell Giuliani that he never found evidence of anyone Giuliani was investigating receiving kickbacks or bribes–something that directly undermines claims Giuliani himself and Donald Trump made later.
Parnas provides more info on his dead-named Twitter account, including text messages between him and Derek Harvey, a former staffer to then-Congressman/now Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes. In those texts, Parnas and Harvey discuss getting information to disgraced media figures John Solomon (formerly of The Hill) and Sean Hannity (formally a Trump propagandist) to promote the constructed narrative, which filled right-wing media for years. Harvey, Giuliani and Parnas also met with lawyers Victoria Toensing, Joe deGenova–tasked with trying to get Trump to drop an extradition order against another Russia-linked Ukrainian ally, Dmitri Firtash–at the Fox “News” studios in Washington, DC days before Fox “News” owner Rupert Murdoch met with US Attorney General Bill Barr about undisclosed matters.