Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Lev Makes STUNNING CLAIM on Trump Crimes

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

Why aren’t more people talking about Giuliani and Trump's former associate and co-conspirator against Biden, Lev Parnas? Michael Popok does a deep dive into Lev’s recent testimony that Giuliani operated a “pay to play” scheme for foreign leaders to BUY ACCESS to the Trump administration and that Giuliani and Trump knew that their allegations that Biden was corrupt and trying to protect Hunter were FALSE. Head to https://TryFum.com/legalaf and use code LEGALAF to save 10% off when you get the journey pack today! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/legalaf Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Michael Popak with the Legal AF Hot Take. Why doesn't Lev Parnas and his revelations that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani conspired to try to bring down Joe Biden while he was a candidate against Donald Trump? And Lev Parnas has the receipts, has the video evidence, and has already testified and told the MidasTouch network that Rudy Giuliani engaged in a pay-to-play scheme in which he wanted $200,000 in order to introduce Ukrainian leadership to Bill Barr, then the Attorney General for Donald Trump. But that's not the only video evidence that Lev Parnas has. I want to break it all down right now on this hot take. Let's back up. Who is Lev Parnas has. I want to break it all down right now on this hot take. Let's

back up. Who is Lev Parnas and why does he matter? Lev Parnas, former Giuliani close associate, a Ukrainian-American business person who went to jail for his crimes and is now a new man, turned a new leaf, has paid his debt to society. He engaged with Rudy Giuliani. It's now been admitted. It's been admitted to by Lev Pardes at the Jan 6 committee. It's been admitted in his allocution related to his crimes that he was one of the leaders with Giuliani for Donald Trump to try to tear down and disparage and say false things about Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and Burisma, which is an oil company in Ukraine that Joe Biden's son

Hunter was on the board of, all made up, all fake, all fictitious. It brought to the foreward a prosecutor as well in Ukraine, Viktor Shokin. I'll talk about Viktor Shokin and the video evidence of Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani talking to Viktor Shokin, in which it's confirmed that there is no facts, there are no evidence, there is no evidence against Joe Biden at all, that it was all made up out of whole cloth in order to try to tear down a political rival of Donald Trump. Lev Parnas, among many people and those that are affiliated with the Midas Touch Network, has paid his debt to society and he is a truth teller and he tells the truth over and over again about his interaction with Rudy Giuliani.

In fact, I'm going gonna play you a clip now that was just disclosed on the Midas Touch Network. Sometimes we report on the news, sometimes we make the news here on the Midas Touch Network. Lev Pardis, in an interview, said that Rudy Giuliani demanded a $200,000 bribe from a high-level minister of the interior in the Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko. Because Yuri Lutsenko, who's no longer in the Ukrainian government, wanted a face-to-face with Bill Barr, the attorney general.

And according to Lev Parnas in this next clip, Rudy had his hand out and wanted to be paid $200,000 to arrange that meeting. Let's play the clip. And lo and behold, two days later, all of a sudden we get a phone call from the general, the friend of the general prosecutors of Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko saying, wait, we're in New York. We'd like to meet with Giuliani. What a coincidence that must be. Right. Like two days later.

To me with attorney general Bill Barr. So you know, we called Julianne. Julianne was like, holy shit, absolutely bring him in. Because that's who we need. He's the one that could give us the current records. So we set up the meeting and Lutsenko comes in and it was became a very awkward meeting because Lutsenko comes in with the, the, the perception that he is the general prosecutor meeting with like the ex prosecutor, you know, Rudy Giuliani, and that he was on a mission to meet

with the current prosecutor general, uh, Bill Barr, and he wanted to discuss criminality between the Templeton fund and money that was going in from Ukraine to America had nothing to do with the Bidens or anything else. It was about a real corrupt money laundering scheme that was going from Ukrainians to America and then back to Ukraine. So Giuliani stops him right away and says, we're not here to talk about the Templeton Fund. And if he goes, if you want that, he goes, you can hire me and I can help you with that.

He goes, but unless you have direct information I could help you with that he goes but what well unless you have Direct information they could help us with the Bidens and the corruption and Joe and Hunter Biden You know don't waste my time. We have nothing to talk about and what Senko was really taken back He could understand, you know Russian he would tell me like wait a second I'm the general prosecutor Ukraine like I want to meet Attorney General Bobar like what is the problem? So I go tell that to Rudy and Rudy's like look you want to meet Attorney General Bobar. Like what is the problem? So I go tell that to Rudy and Rudy's like, look, you want to meet Attorney General Bobar? The way things work here,

you have to pay a lobbyist and they will get you in there. So you could pay me $200,000 and I will introduce you to Attorney General Bobar. So the tech gets taken back again. He's like, what the hell has God over here? So we stopped the meeting. Giuliani tells me, listen, go work on him and make sure that tomorrow he brings us the goods.

So that evening I go meet with Lutsenko and Igor. They get drunk and Lutsenko is pouring his heart out to me. He can't believe what just happened. He looked up to Giuliani as his hero and all this stuff. And here Giuliani is basically shaking him down for 200,000 to go meet the attorney general Barr. And, you know, I did my job. I calmed him down.

I talked him into it. I explained to him that, listen, you know, you know how things work all over the world, and this is just how things work in the United States. I mean, you got to play ball to get what you need to get. Okay, so now we've established the bona fides of Lev Parnas, his relationship with Rudy

Giuliani, that he's got the goods on Rudy Giuliani, so to speak, in terms of the corruption scandals. I mean, this should come as no surprise. If you just listen to Lev Pardis, for instance, when he testified under oath to the House Select Committee for the Jan 6 investigation, where he said, in effect, I'm paraphrasing here, that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani and others have been lying to the American people from the very beginning. For those that question why, and I have some Republican friends that ask me, why is the

criminal justice system being used against Donald Trump? It isn't that election interference. The answer to that is no. Try not to nominate somebody that has been indicted 91 times and against whom former associates tell the American people they are liars and maybe you won't have a problem with the criminal justice system doing things during the campaign. Let's play the clip of Lev Pardis testifying

before the Jan 6 committee on that very point. Let's roll it. And we'll members of Congress, Chairman Comer, ranking member Raskin, and members of the Oversight Committee. I am humbled and thankful to show up before you today. I came to the United States from Odessa, Ukraine in 1976 when it was still the former Soviet Union. My mother and father and sister and I had left the Soviet Union

escaping anti-Semitism and persecution. While in Rome and right and route to Israel, my sister and I won the most important opportunity that we have ever been given. We won a US green card lottery. My family came here with literally no more than shirts on our back and the hopes of rebuilding our lives in the land of freedom. I say this to you because I love this country. From shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019 to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you. 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 them, 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. Ever tried to break a bad habit and felt like you're climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops? Yeah, we've been there too.

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The takeaway from all this is that Lev Parnas on good authority, on insider knowledge, working closely shoulder to shoulder with Rudy Giuliani, conspired to try to take down Joe Biden with false information that he was involved with a bribery scandal and that he was involved in trying to protect his son Hunter Biden and his position on the Burisma board and to get a prosecutor fired. You'll hear a lot of talk. There's a lot of palm cards and talking points by the Republicans when you meet them somewhere. They'll say, what about that prosecutor in Ukraine

that Joe Biden takes credit for getting rid of? First of all, the prosecutor they were talking about, which is Viktor Shokin, Viktor Shokin, remember that name. He was dismissed by Ukraine because he was found to be corrupt. That's why they got rid of him, not because Joe Biden leaned on them to get rid of Viktor Shokin because he

was conducting some sort of good faith investigation of Hunter Biden. He was getting too close to the Biden family. Therefore he had to go. That's an interesting narrative. The only problem with it, according to Lev Parnas, is that it's completely false. And how do we know that? Some people would say, well, Polpak, how do we know know, Parnas is affiliated with the Midas Touch Network. Maybe he's blowing smoke or sunshine.

Well, let me play you a clip of Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani, on the phone with Victor Shokin, the dismissed prosecutor before he was dismissed, in which you will hear Giuliani say, well, do you have anything on Biden? Any kind of bribery? Any kind of payoffs? Is there anything?

And even that corrupt prosecutor, Victor Shokin, said no, confirming what Lev Parnas has said all along, including in his testimony to the House and what he had to do as related to his conviction that it was completely made up out of whole cloth by Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump in order to try to take down by fraud that which they could not do with the American people defeat Joe Biden. Let's play that video. I guess what I'm getting at is I understand that I understand why that's wrong. But was there any specific act that any of these people perform? Do they get a kickback? Do they get a bribe?

people perform? Do they get a kickback? Do they get a bribe? What I wanted to do is sort of pull it all together. All of these different disparate pieces of the puzzle with that all tied back to Lev Parnas. I mean we've had him on the show, we've had him, there's a recent interview that I think has gotten a lot of views, but I sort of wanted to do it from the analysis of sort of where we are and why Lev Parnas is a truth-teller now. Michael Cohen also gets a lot of views, but I sort of wanted to do it from the analysis of sort of where we are and why Lev Parnas is a truth teller now. Michael Cohen also gets a lot of grief because they're like, well, he's a criminal and he committed crimes and he went to jail and all of that. And that may be true. And as they said in the opening statements by the prosecutors in the Manhattan prosecution of Donald Trump for 2016

election interference, they said that Michael Cohen is complicated. Michael Cohen is a little bit challenged as an individual, but that doesn't mean he's not telling the truth now. And I suggest the same thing applies to Lev Parnas. Parnas has paid his debt to society and he has the videos that the Republicans don't want to see. And we have the audio recordings and he's public and he's frank and he's upfront about the Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Leav Parnas conspiracy to try to take down Donald Trump. We follow all of this on the Midas Touch Network.

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