Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 11:53 am
Donald Trump has been caught in yet another lie, and this one is central to the impeachment inquiry now working its way through the House of Representatives.
According to CNN, “Among the many guests who had their pictures taken with President Donald Trump at the White House’s annual Hanukkah party last year were two Soviet-born businessmen from Florida, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.”
It wasn’t just a harmless holiday party. CNN reports that the three men, plus Rudy Giuliani, met privately that night. The topic of discussion? Ukraine and the Bidens.
More from CNN:
At one point during the party that night, Parnas and Fruman slipped out of a large reception room packed with hundreds of Trump donors to have a private meeting with the President and Giuliani, according to two acquaintances in whom Parnas confided right after the meeting.
Word of the encounter in the White House last December, which has not been previously reported, is further indication that Trump knew Parnas and Fruman, despite Trump publicly stating that he did not on the day after the two men were arrested at Dulles International Airport last month.
Eventually, according to what Parnas told his confidants, the topic turned to Ukraine that night. According to those two confidants, Parnas said that “the big guy,” as he sometimes referred to the President in conversation, talked about tasking him and Fruman with what Parnas described as “a secret mission” to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Trump claims he didn’t know the two men
After Parnas and Fruman were arrested, Trump immediately claimed he didn’t know who they were – despite having dinner with the men and appearing in multiple pictures with them.
“I don’t know them,” the president said at the time. “I don’t know about them. I don’t know what they do.”
The new CNN report shows not only that Trump knew the two criminals and had multiple interactions with them, but he had tasked them with a “secret mission” to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on the Biden family.
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