As Twitchy reported earlier, Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani charged with campaign finance violations, is doing a get-out-of-jail media tour and his first stop was on Rachel Maddow’s show Wednesday night. The interview drew the largest audience for the show in its 11-year-history, even beating out the time Maddow obtained one of Trump’s tax returns showing that if anything, he overpaid.
Law professor Laurence Tribe, long afflicted with advanced TDS, thought that Parnas had a different reason for going on “Maddow” — he knew it wouldn’t help him with his current legal troubles, but it would reduce the incentive of the Russian mob to kill him before he ever made it to jail.
People who seem confused about what Lev Parnas hopes to gain from the compelling story he told on @maddow are awfully naive. Though spilling what he knows won’t help him vis-a-vis SDNY, it obviously reduces the incentive of the Russian mob and its Trumpian allies to kill the guy.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 16, 2020
Obviously.
You have all lost your minds….. https://t.co/criAcZcjtK
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) January 16, 2020
Uh…we're not the Clintons.
— DeanLogic ♎ (@DeanLogic) January 16, 2020
That's Hillary's M.O., not Trump's.
— Zionist Redneck (@gone_galt) January 16, 2020
Dude thinks he's in a Grisham novel
— varyar (@varyarpol) January 16, 2020
Trump has broken everybody.
— Frank (@mugtang) January 16, 2020
Russia, russia, russia, …
??
— Ilhan Omar Nur Said Elmi (Parody) (@OmarMaymoon2) January 16, 2020
a once great legal mind turned to mush from #TDS, lost in an inescapable delusion. Tragic
— Curtis Woodard (@curtinsea) January 16, 2020
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 16, 2020
FFS, really?
If he had anything, the SNDY would not let him go on TV. they would have him locked up somewhere, under 24 hour protection.
— Christopher D (@BeJamesMadison1) January 16, 2020
? I have an easier time believing the flat world conspiracy theory than I do this conspiracy theory.
— Questionabletrends (@QTrendsdotcom) January 16, 2020
He is not even remotely credible.
— Northpaw (@JohnWil08492019) January 16, 2020
Isn't this the guy from 'fraud inc.'
— expartymember (@expartymember) January 16, 2020
“Compelling”. He’s a fraud
— Ian MacNeal (@Ian_MacNeal) January 16, 2020
Take the L buddy.
— BGH – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@KissMyCamo) January 16, 2020
Seek help https://t.co/sDOSrk3YOE
— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) January 16, 2020
cc: @SpeakerPelosi
This is the leader of the brain trust that led you down the path to delaying impeachment. Well done!
— "By the book" is a bit of a tell, no? (@FollowFew1) January 16, 2020
Did you get a pen? https://t.co/pqePpskBMf
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 16, 2020
The conspiracy theories get kookier & crazier… https://t.co/vs6rxhlrXe
— Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) January 16, 2020
It’s Maddow.
These people have completely lost their minds https://t.co/8XaDXU39TO
— Will Chamberlain ?? (@willchamberlain) January 16, 2020
Did Epstein hang himself, Larry? https://t.co/rvveJI3vtg
— Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) January 16, 2020
This is your brain on TDS. ?
Harvard law professor reduced to spouting crazy conspiracy theories & gibberish on https://t.co/LeclHVw01u. https://t.co/X49tW45FD8— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 16, 2020
Harvard. https://t.co/DnYcD5FR5t
— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) January 16, 2020
Harvard Law. https://t.co/Dpe23WFGdO
— It's still 2016 apparently (@jtLOL) January 16, 2020
Tenured and terrible????? https://t.co/Qx2VF1d3NB
— Pass the Ketchup (@JCTrey) January 16, 2020
Not a parody account:
Folks, this is Laurence Tribe, not some twitter dummy. This is one of USA's greatest scholarly professorial lawyers.
— June Astford (@JAstford) January 16, 2020
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Update:
Parnas’s media tour continues, and Thursday he told The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff Swan why he’s speaking out now, and he doesn’t mention the Russian mob … he just sounds like he’s butthurt.
NEW: Lev Parnas told me this afternoon that part of the reason he's speaking out now is that his old friends––Rudy, DiGenova, and Toensing––were silent after his arrest. "I felt like my family left me." More TKhttps://t.co/J9e1l9nFB6
— Betsy Woodruff Swan (@woodruffbets) January 17, 2020
Related:
'Seek help, dude': Laurence Tribe takes blaming Donald Trump for Ukrainian plane crash in Iran to a new level of derangement https://t.co/o7UQyqx8j3
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 9, 2020
