The Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, attended a small dinner with Trump at his Washington hotel in April 2018. The recording, which was first reported by ABC News, appears to contradict the president’s statements that he did not know Parnas, a key figure in the investigation. “I don’t know Parnas other than I guess I had pictures taken, which I do with thousands of people,” Trump said last week. I don’t know him at all. Don’t know what he’s about, don’t know where he comes from, know nothing about him.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 25, 2020 01:41 UTC