Giuliani Distances Himself From Parnas After Explosive Interview: ‘Believe Him At Your Peril’

Lawyer for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Soviet-born businessman who served as Giuliani's fixer in Ukraine, Lev Parnas, arrive at the funeral of late President George H.W. Bush at the National Cathedral ... Lawyer for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Soviet-born businessman who served as Giuliani's fixer in Ukraine, Lev Parnas, arrive at the funeral of late President George H.W. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC on December 5, 2018. (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried to distance himself from his buddy, Lev Parnas, on Wednesday night after Parnas gave a damning interview about President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Ukraine scheme.

“Who cares?” Giuliani said in an interview with the Washington Post. “Believe him at your peril.”

“We all make mistakes,” he added. “I feel sorry for him and his family.”

Parnas, who played a key role in the pressure campaign against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, appeared on MSNBC for an interview with Rachel Maddow, during which the Giuliani associate revealed the extent of Trump’s involvement in the scheme.

Parnas told Maddow that Trump “was aware of all my movements,” despite the President’s claim that he does not know Parnas.

“[Trump] knew exactly who I was especially because I interacted with him at a lot of events,” he said. “I was with Rudy when he would speak to the President — plenty of times.”

Parnas also revealed that he and Giuliani had made a deal with Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash: Firtash would provide information useful to the Trump campaign in exchange for getting his criminal charges dismissed by the Justice Department.

Read more about Parnas’ interview here.

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  1. We will probably believe him, pending corroboration of his statements, at YOUR and Trump’s peril. Does this mean you won’t be sharing any more expensive cigars with him?

  2. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    :musical_score:Who bribed who? Who bribed you?
    Who bribed who? A’int nobody told you?
    Who bribed who? Who bribed you?
    If you bribed them and they bribed you,
    Who picked up the bill and WHO BRIBED WHO?

  3. Lev’s Bill Barr shoutouts were my favorite dish from last night. Lev might be a bum but he connected a lot of dots last night. Cons are the lowest forms of life in our country—not a judgement just an observation.

  4. We should all be thankful Bill Barr had absolutely no role, and nothing to do with any of this, in any way at all.

  5. Avatar for aiddon aiddon says:

    You’re going to die in jail or in exile, Rudy

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