House Oversight Democrats have landed “Fraud Guarantee” guy and former Rudy Giuliani pal Lev Parnas as their minority witness for Chairbilly James Comer’s big Wednesday “impeachment” hearing, also starring square-headed Hunter Biden “whistleblower” Tony Bobulinski and another guy who will be literally testifying via Zoom from federal prison, Jamie Raskin tells CNN.
“Lev Parnas can debunk the bogus claims at the heart of the impeachment probe and, in the process, explain how the GOP ended up in this degraded and embarrassing place,” Raskin said.
Parnas, a Ukrainian immigrant who worked with Rudy to fabricate the false claims about the Bidens that led to Trump’s first impeachment, was first indicted during the 2019 inquiry and ultimately did 20 months in the clink for campaign finance fraud, wire fraud, and false statements. Since then Parnas appears, sincerely or not, to have “turned heel” on MAGA and last year wrote a letter to Comer saying “the narrative you are seeking for this investigation has been proven false many times over, by a wide array of respected sources. There is simply no merit to investigating this matter any further.” Parnas’s son Aaron is now a lib influencer with a very large Twitter following.
A source told CNN that Dems had considered bringing in Michael Cohen, but decided to go with Parnas as “Cohen could have spoken directly to how Trump used the White House to enrich himself, but Parnas can speak directly to how Trump used sketchy sources to fabricate dirt on Biden.” We were already looking forward to this hearing but goddamn that just went from a 10 to a 14 or 15.