NEW: Indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas is willing to tell Congress about meetings Devin Nunes—the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee—had in Vienna last year with a former Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden. cnn.com/2019/11/22/pol…
Parnas was working to push a pair of unfounded claims: that Ukrainians interfered in the '16 election on behalf of Democrats and that Biden was acting corruptly in Ukraine on behalf of his son Hunter. According to Parnas’s lawyer, Parnas said Nunes worked to push similar claims.
That information would likely be of great interest to House Democrats given its overlap with the current impeachment inquiry into President Trump—and could put Nunes in a difficult spot.
There is no evidence the Bidens acted inappropriately. Nor is there evidence that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. Yet these claims have been a key part of the public defense of Trump put forth by Nunes and other Republicans during the impeachment hearings this month.
Parnas’s lawyer says Parnas is also willing to talk about a series of meetings he took part in at the Trump International Hotel in DC about Ukraine. claims he was part of a “team” which met several times a week in a private room on the second floor of the Trump Hotel.
The group, according to Parnas’s lawyer, included Rudy Giuliani, Lev Parnas, the journalist John Solomon, and the married attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing.
Thanks to @michaelrwarren, @arogdc, and Audrey Ash for their assistance in reporting this story.
