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Yet more evidence of Trumpian Criminal Activity! šš¤”šØ
Giuliani Associate Says He Gave Demand for Biden Inquiry to Ukrainians
The claim by the associate, Lev Parnas, is being vigorously disputed.
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Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Lev Parnas, second from left, has emerged as a central character in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. CreditEduardo Munoz/Reuters
By Ben Protess, Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum
Nov. 10, 2019, 5:08 p.m. ET
Not long before the Ukrainian president was inaugurated in May, an associate of Rudolph W. Giulianiās journeyed to Kiev to deliver a warning to the countryās new leadership, a lawyer for the associate said.
The associate, Lev Parnas, told a representative of the incoming government that it had to announce an investigation into Mr. Trumpās political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his son, or else Vice President Mike Pence would not attend the swearing-in of the new president, and the United States would freeze aid, the lawyer said.
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Ā @fried-greentomatoesĀ
Thatās the short version, attributed to Burke. A longer version reads as follows:
Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult, and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each otherās principles, nor experienced in each otherās talents, nor at all practised in their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them; it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity, perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
āEdmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents 82-83 (1770)
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