New recording shows access Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had to Trump at Mar-a-Lago donor event
Source: Washington Post
By Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman
Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:09 a.m. PST
Ten days before Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman dined with President Trump at his Washington hotel, they were part of a small group of Republican Party donors who met with the president at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate, a new recording shows.
The two men who later assisted Rudolph W. Giulianis efforts in Ukraine were part of a gathering held in an ornate room of the property and also attended by Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, according to the video and people in attendance.
While it was known that Fruman and Parnas had attended an event at Mar-a-Lago, the focus of the event, the timing and who else was in attendance had not been made public.
The April 2018 meeting came days before the two men took part in a donor dinner with the president at his Washington hotel, an encounter captured on a video released last week by Parnass attorney.
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greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)But he met with him 10 days before? What a cafone.
underpants
(182,788 posts)Nope still never knew him
swag
(26,487 posts)...The video shows RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel greeting Fruman with a hug and saying, Im so glad youre here, before asking whether hes ever been to Trumps 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...
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)and they've been paying him. From the triggers ("she refuses to hang your portrait," or she keeps saying "you'll be impeached soon" ) Lev dropped in rump's ear during the first tape, I suspect he is working for Putin and shuffling money to Republicans through Rudy. Trump could not hit the trifecta of perfectly impeachable crimes--bribery/extortion; soliciting foreign interference in US elections, and obstruction of justice that threatens to explode our Constitution by himself.