You could not have asked for more dramatic or more damaging testimony from Lev Parnas in the House Biden impeachment inquiry. But it was damaging to MAGA Republicans, not President Joe Biden.
You may recall that this former Giuliani associate was arrested and seems to have been repenting ever since for his role in the MAGA Ukraine operation against Joe Biden. On Wednesday, he delivered what should be the coup de grace against the Republicans’ sham impeachment “inquiry.”
Parnas began his opening statement by incriminating Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani as masterminds of a scheme to smear Joe and Hunter Biden. Jack Smith, I hope you’re listening:
PARNAS: The American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions.
They created falsehoods to serve their own interests, knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation.
From November 2018 to October 2019, I was a key participant and a witness to numerous efforts to prove that Joe and Hunter Biden were linked to corruption in Ukraine.
Rudy Giuliani, on behalf of then-President Donald Trump tasked me with a mission to travel the globe, finding dirt on the Bidens so that an array of networks could spread misinformation about them, thus securing the 2020 election for Donald J.Trump.
Parnas went on to say that when he was arrested, he was linked to an unnamed individual referred to as “Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1.”
“We now know this individual to be Congressman Pete Sessions, who sits on this very committee today,” Parnas added.
Then Parnas continued by destroying the MAGA conspiracy theory.
PARNAS: In nearly a year traveling the world and interviewing officials in different countries, I found precisely zero evidence of the Bidens' corruption in Ukraine.
No credible source has ever provided proof of criminal activity, not the FBI, CIA, nor the NSA.
No respectable Ukrainian official has ever said that the Bidens did anything illegal, including former President Poroshenko and former Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko.
Even when CEO of Burisma, Nikola Zlochevsky, was offered a deal by Rudy Giuliani in exchange for information on the Bidens, he provided none because there is none.
The only information ever pushed on the Bidens in Ukraine has come from one source and one source only, Russia and Russian agents.
But wait, there’s more: “Everyone involved knew they were sharing lies,” Parnas said. He knows this “with certainty” because he was “designated the point person in every matter they pursued.”
Then he continued naming names, including members of Congress:
PARNAS: Congressman Pete Sessions, then-Congressman Devin Nunes, Senator Ron Johnson, and many others understood they were pushing a false narrative.
The same goes for John Solomon, Sean Hannity, and media personnel, particularly at Fox News, who used this narrative to manipulate the public ahead of the 2020 elections.
Sadly, they are still doing this today as we approach the 2024 elections.
“We cannot separate this conspiracy from the Russian-Ukraine war because Trump has no intention to keep aiding Ukraine,” Parnas said. Before thanking the committee and offering to take questions, he closed by saying, “Despite rigorous attempts by those in power to silence me, I will be silenced no longer.”
Parnas’ words should have just demolished the impeachment “inquiry” as well as Donald Trump’s treasonous candidacy and the careers of everyone else he named. But with MAGA Russian-Republicans in charge of the GOP and their favorite "news" network, they are probably cooking up propaganda lies as I write this.
