As a guy who's been reviewing major-media investigative reports on Parnas for months, I promise the question of whether Trump knows Parnas personally and on a face-to-face conversational basis is a ship that sailed long ago; folks, these two have been at a Hanukkah party together
Parnas directly advised Trump on Ukraine on multiple occasions, and we have reports going back many months confirming everything he said about having repeated one-on-one conversations with Trump in various locales; we're talking personal notes and family connections and more here
Trump's statements on Parnas aren't white lies, they're the obscenely fraudulent, sociopathically contrary-to-fact statements of a guy who hasn't processed or isn't willing to process or cannot allow himself to be seen to have processed that he's a career criminal who got caught
