The recording is the second video Lev Parnas’ attorney has released this month.
New video released by the attorney for Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani who worked to drum up an investigation of Joe Biden out of Ukraine, appears to show Parnas and his business partner Igor Fruman mingling with Trump and GOP officials at a donor event in April 2018.
The recording appears to have been by Fruman, who was indicted along with Parnas on campaign finance charges last year, and is further evidence that Parnas and Fruman were invited to several events with Trump—who has since claimed not to know them—and other high-ranking GOP officials.
The video shows RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel greeting Fruman with a hug and saying, “I’m so glad you’re here,” before asking whether he’s ever been to Trump’s Florida estate Mar-a-Lago.
The encounter suggests a level of familiarity with Fruman, who along with Parnas donated more than $600,000 to 26 federal candidates, all Republicans, in 2016 and 2018. Most of the then-candidates who are now sitting members of Congress and plan to run for re-election in 2020, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, pledged to return the donations shortly after the indictment was made public.
“On a given day, the chairwoman greets hundreds if not thousands of people at events across the country,” an RNC spokesperson said in response to the video. “This is nothing more than that.”
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New video released by the attorney for Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani who worked to drum up an investigation of Biden out of Ukraine, appears to show Parnas and mingling with Trump and GOP officials at a donor event in April 2018 https://t.co/kERwU1dQiR
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