Can the press just stop hyping Parnas?

January 19, 2020 By Jack Hellner

The latest press hack to climb onto the Lev Parnas bandwagon is, no surprise, Washington Post #NeverTrump columnist Kathleen Parker.

Here she goes:

Thanks to Trump, we are living in a world of sleaze. It’s tough enough keeping count of the former Trump associates who’ve been indicted, convicted or imprisoned. With startling regularity, new names emerge on what seems a bottomless list of scoundrels and grifters.

We began this presidential caper, after all, with revelations of a porn star paid off to keep silent about an alleged affair with Trump shortly after Melania Trump had given birth to their son. Never wonder why so many Americans are disgusted by this president. But what might finally bring Trump down are not alleged sins of the flesh but abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — the two charges laid out in articles of impeachment now before the U.S. Senate.

Last week, following the slow tortures of the House impeachment process, a new character emerged in the nick of time to bestir the swamp. In a perverse deus ex machina, this time surfacing from the bowels of the stage, Lev Parnas was this week’s man of the moment.

Problem: It is the media that is elevating Parnas, just like they elevated the crook Michael Avenatti. But here she is blaming Trump as she and most of the media always do........... To Read More

Adam Schiff Passes Along New Piece of Trump Impeachment Evidence and It Looks Like a Nothingburger

Matt Vespa Jan 15, 2020

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the Democratic impeachment managers this morning, new “explosive” evidence dropped last night in yet another attempt by Democrats to convince the public that their impeachment push isn’t a partisan circus. It’s also meant to add pressure on Senate Republicans to allow witnesses. Everyone has heard enough about Trump, Russia, and collusion. It’s over. Done. The only areas still believing this myth are portions of the country where the most deranged anti-Trump voters reside. No one cares, especially in the swing states.

But let’s give this new evidence a look. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee and part of the impeachment team passed on some note from an associate of Rudy Giuliani dealing with the Trump-Ukraine allegation that started the Democrats’ impeachment push. To recap, in July, Trump supposedly threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they investigated Hunter Biden’s board position at Burisma, an energy company (via Axios):...............

Yeah, Lev Parnas is the associate who is forking over new stuff, and as Axios noted, he’s facing criminal charges. The Federalist’s Sean Davis aptly noted that this dude is angling to avoid prison, pointing to some undated note where it says to get the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an anti-corruption probe against Biden.

“An undated note from a guy indicted on multiple federal charges of fraud and conspiracy who's already fabricated evidence in a desperate attempt to get an immunity deal from Schiff and Pelosi so he can avoid prison? That's the new smoking gun?,” tweeted Davis. ......To Read More....