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Politico: Rep. Adam Schiff may have mischaracterized a piece of the Lev Parnas evidence

Politico is reporting Tuesday night that House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff might have “mischaracterized” some evidence regarding Lev Parnas and his dealings with Ukraine.

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Melanie Zanoana reports:

The issue arose when Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last week summarizing a trove of evidence from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. In one section of the letter, Schiff claims that Parnas “continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky,” citing a specific text message exchange where Parnas tells Giuliani: “trying to get us mr Z.” The remainder of the exchange — which was attached to Schiff’s letter — was redacted.

But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: “mr Z answers my brother.” That suggests Parnas was referring to Zlochevsky not Zelensky.

So is Politico saying that Schiff can’t always be trusted when he says he has evidence of something?

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Republicans pounce!

We’re still waiting on that Russian collusion evidence.


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