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If you read my posts enough, you know that I try not to let The Rachel Maddow Show <\/em>drive my topics too much.  I am a constant viewer, and Rachel does an outstanding job of prepping and analyzing issues, problems, and events.  She always gets the viewer thinking, and I don\u2019t want to try to compete with all of that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But her interview of Lev Parnas on Wednesday and Thursday nights is too good to pass up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transmission <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the two Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for trial.\u00a0\u00a0Pelosi created a great deal of controversy. She held the Articles after their passage in the House on December 19th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0The actually \u201ctransmission\u201d of those Articles via hand delivery to the Senate Chamber took place on January 15th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0The Congress was out of session, gone to Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever, from December 20th<\/sup>\u00a0to January 6th<\/sup>. That didn\u2019t seem to matter to Pelosi\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the delay worked in the Speaker\u2019s favor.\u00a0\u00a0While they were out, key witness John Bolton signaled that he would be willing to testify.\u00a0\u00a0Emails from the Office of Management of Budget and the Defense Department (released not to the House Committees but to the media through a Freedom of Information Act request) further confirmed the President\u2019s orders to withhold money from Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0And this week, the General Accounting Office ruled that holding the Ukraine funds was against the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0In addition, the Courts ordered the Justice Department to return documents and cell phones to Lev Parnas. He was the \u201cbutton man\u201d in the Rudy Giuliani pressure campaign in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0Parnas and his attorney then turned that information over to the House Intelligence Committee, who released a lot of it to the public.\u00a0\u00a0It also went into the package of evidence going to the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Evidence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That evidence included a letter from Giuliani to newly elected Ukrainian President Zelenskiy. That letter confirmed that Giuliani was acting as private counsel to Donald Trump, President of the United States.\u00a0\u00a0There were also notes from phone calls, confirming that \u201cthe deal\u201d was to get Zelenskiy to investigate the Bidens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parnas also had a series of recovered text messages confirming much of his work in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0There were also disturbing texts from Republican Congressional candidate Robert Hyde. They implied that Hyde was following US Ambassador Yovanovitch and even hinting that \u201c\u2026if you want her out\u201d it could be arranged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lev Speaks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But the big reveal came in Rachel\u2019s interview.  Parnas laid out the following points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. From the beginning Giuliani\u2019s plan was to get the Ukrainian government to investigate the Bidens, not Ukrainian corruption. And President Trump knew every move.<\/li>
  2. Giuliani and Parnas were empowered to speak for the President of the United States.<\/li>
  3. When Ambassador Sondland testified, \u201c\u2026everybody was in the loop,\u201d that included not just Trump and Mulvaney, but Bolton and Vice President Pence as well.<\/li>
  4. The Giuliani \u201cteam\u201d included not just Parnas and Fruman, but also \u201cFox Attorneys\u201d Joe DiGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing. Congressman Devin Nunes and his staff, and Attorney General Bill Barr were involved as well.<\/li>
  5. One of their goals was to strike a deal with then Ukrainian Prosecutor Lutsenko.\u00a0\u00a0He wanted Ambassador Yovanovitch removed in exchange for dirt on Biden.\u00a0\u00a0Yovanovitch was removed.<\/li>
  6. That when Lutsenko failed to give them the dirt and was removed by Zelenskiy, they needed to cut a new \u201cdeal\u201d.<\/li>
  7. Money for Ukrainian defense and perhaps even more importantly US recognition was what Ukraine wanted.\u00a0\u00a0That was the \u201cquid\u201d for the Biden investigation \u201cquo\u201d, and everybody on the team and in the loop, knew it.<\/li>
  8. That Parnas was trying to cut a deal with oligarch Dimitry Firtash.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0US charges against Firtash would be dropped, if Firtash would help get \u201cBiden Dirt\u201d. And everyone, DiGenova, Toensing, and Parnas would make a whole lot of money in the process.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Ignore at Your Peril<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    It\u2019s pretty damning testimony \u2013 and information that the Republican Senate doesn\u2019t seem to want to hear.\u00a0\u00a0There are some caveats however.\u00a0\u00a0Parnas is accused of a felony, illegal campaign contributions. These are\u00a0\u00a0similar to the charges that put Trump attorney Michael Cohen in prison for three years.\u00a0\u00a0That raises the bar on questions about his credibility.\u00a0\u00a0And some of his accusations, like a lot of the House Intelligence Committee testimony, is second hand. \u201cRudy said the President said\u201d and \u201cVictoria and Joe said Attorney General Barr said\u201d; are definitely one step away from first hand information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But it all fills in gaps in an overall tale. The President looked for dirt on Joe Biden and used the powers of the Presidency to try to get it.\u00a0\u00a0The Senate needs to hear this obvious story.\u00a0\u00a0If they don\u2019t, then they are like little kids, sticking fingers in their ears and yelling \u201c\u266b La, La, La, La, La \u266b\u201d so they can\u2019t hear the truth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There will be a price to pay for such intentional ignorance.  If it doesn\u2019t happen in the hallowed Senate hall, then it may well happen at the ballot box on November 3rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you read my posts enough, you know that I try not to let The Rachel Maddow Show drive my topics too much.  I am a constant viewer, and Rachel does an outstanding job of prepping and analyzing issues, problems, and events.  She always gets the viewer thinking, and I don\u2019t want to try to compete with all of … Continue reading “Talking to Lev”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nTalking to Lev : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Giuliani's "button man" in the Ukraine Lev Parnas talked about what they were doing. 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