Parnas said Trump knows him well and there are pictures of the two of them at various events.
“I don’t believe I’ve ever spoken to him," Trump told reporters about Lev Parnas, taking questions after an event announcing new federal guidance he has saidParnas, who once worked with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, has provided House investigators with documents to buttress his claims that Trump sought political dirt from a foreign country on Biden and on his son Hunter Biden, who once worked for a Ukrainian gas company called Burisma.
The president is accused of seeking a foreign nation's help with his 2020 re-election campaign by having Ukraine investigate a rival, Biden, and threatening to withhold foreign aid from Ukraine if it did not comply with his wishes.At one point, Trump made reference to Parnas' legal problems, saying that"he's probably trying to make a deal for himself" – a theme echoed by many of his aides throughout the day.
Parnas also said Vice President Mike Pence knew about the effort to lean on Ukraine to investigate Biden. He said Pence decided not to attend the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelensky because Ukraine had not announced an investigation of the Bidens.
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