Oversight Committee Democrats invite Giuliani associate Lev Parnas as witness for Biden impeachment hearing

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated 2:14 PM EDT, Tue March 19, 2024


House Democrats on the Oversight Committee have selected an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, who played a role in former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, to be their witness at the panel’s hearing on Wednesday, a source with Oversight Committee Democrats told CNN.

Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American, worked with Giuliani in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election on behalf of Trump to try and unearth damaging information about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in Ukraine. Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison in connection with convictions on campaign finance, wire fraud and false statements.

House Republicans had embraced the dirt Parnas was peddling but he has since called it out as nonsense. “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,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight panel.

In a statement provided to CNN, a Republican Oversight Committee spokesperson said, “It’s telling the Democrats didn’t call any of Hunter Biden’s business associates who claim his father’s innocence because they know their testimony won’t withstand public scrutiny.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/lev-parnas-democrats-witness-biden-impeachment-hearing/index.html

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Full headline: First on CNN: Oversight Committee Democrats invite Giuliani associate Lev Parnas as witness for Biden impeachment hearing

LOL They forget that this whole thing was Ghouliani's scheme and he got Parnas anf Fruman to help do the dirty deed.

[ariadne0614]

1. Is this the hearing?

https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/influence-peddling-examining-joe-bidens-abuse-of-public-office/

I wonder if 10am is too early for popcorn.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I believe so

and it's never too early or too late to "imbibe"!

[ariadne0614]

3. Based on the title, it's easy to tell the thugs are in charge.

It definitely should be popcorn-worthy.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Here's an excerpt from an Axios article on it -

Updated 18 mins ago -
Politics & Policy
Democrats pick former Giuliani associate for Hunter Biden hearing


Andrew Solender

(snip)

Driving the news: Parnas will "be able to share firsthand evidence about Donald Trump and Republicans' efforts to dig up dirt on Joe Biden," a Democratic committee source told Axios.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the panel, said in a statement, "Who better than Lev Parnas himself—Rudy Giuliani's right-hand man on the original mission to smear Joe Biden—to tell the story of how this campaign of lies and slander works?"

Parnas, he said, "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."

(snip)

I'm sure Jamie Raskin spearheaded this!

[republianmushroom]

4. Good