Section: TPM (USA)
Lev Parnas Says Many GOPers Are Too ‘Scared’ Of Trump Getting DOJ To Investigate Them To Speak Out
In a pre-taped CNN interview that aired Wednesday night, Lev Parnas, an indicted associate to Rudy Giuliani, alleged that many Republicans won’t speak out against President Donald Trump for fear that he’ll have the Justice Department and Attorney General Bill Barr investigate them. During the second part of the pre-taped interview,...
Everything Rudy Did, He Did For Trump
When Rudy Giuliani wanted to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in May 2019, he made sure to emphasize one thing. “I am private counsel to President Donald J. Trump,” Giuliani wrote. “Just to be precise, I represent him as a private citizen, not as President of the United States.” The thread runs throughout the texts released by former...
Parnas Alleges White House Deal To Free Ukrainian Mobster In Exchange For Trump Legal Help
Former Rudy Giuliani amigo Lev Parnas may have revealed a staggering scandal on Wednesday, with Ukrainian gas billionaire Dmytro Firtash at the center. The allegation is this: Trump and his legal team offered to have federal foreign bribery charges against Firtash dropped if the oligarch, described by federal prosecutors as an “upper-echelon”...
Senate GOP Blows Off GAO Finding That Trump’s Hold On Ukraine Aid Was Illegal
Many Senate Republicans, including several members of the Appropriations Committee, seemed unconcerned by a government watchdog report released Thursday that found that the Trump administration’s broke the law by withholding aid to Ukraine. While some GOP senators claimed they hadn’t seen the report, other Republicans admitted that it...
As Parnas Speaks Out, Nunes Now Remembers Talking To Him On The Phone
When call logs and media reports dragged House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) deeper into the inner folds of the impeachment pressure scheme last month, Nunes conveniently did not recall the conversation in question — a series of phone-tag calls between himself and indicted Rudy Giuliani pal, Lev Parnas. But now that...
Yup, Trump Was Pressuring Ukraine Way Before Notorious Phone Call
It is becoming increasingly clear that President Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine began long before President Volodymyr Zelensky took power in May 2019, and likely extended far back into the tenure of his predecessor. While the notorious phone call between Trump and Zelensky in July 2019 prompted the whistleblower complaint that...
FBI Visits Home Of Trump Donor Who Sent Menacing Texts About Yovanovitch
FBI investigators on Thursday reportedly visited the home and business of Robert Hyde, the Trump donor and congressional candidate who sent menacing texts to Lev Parnas about then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. CNN reported the news Thursday: FBI investigators went to the home and the business of Robert Hyde on Thursday. The agents were...
New Texts From Parnas’ Phone Show Giuliani’s Frustrations During Pressure Campaign
New evidence released by Congress Wednesday evening from Lev Parnas’ iPhone spells out, in even clearer terms, Rudy Giuliani’s role in the Ukraine pressure campaign. In texts and documents that added to two other tranches of records released in recent days, Giuliani makes it explicit that President Donald Trump wants political dirt...
Parnas Who? WH Still Insists Trump Doesn’t Know Giuliani Pal Despite Damning Interview, Photos
On Thursday morning, White House spokesperson Stephanie Grisham denied Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas’ allegation that President Donald Trump was fully aware of his efforts to pressure Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Joe Biden. “The President has said he did not know him,” Grisham said during an interview on “Fox &...
Gov’t Watchdog Office: OMB Broke Law With Trump-Ordered Ukraine Aid Freeze
The U.S. Government Accountability Office, a government watchdog agency that advises Congress, concluded Thursday that the hold President Trump ordered his Office of Management and Budget to place on Ukraine military assistance violated the law. “Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities...
