President Trump's efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government included an attempted quid pro quo with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, according to Lev Parnas, the indicted businessman who is a central figure in the impeachment scandal.
Revealing what he claims is a previously undisclosed meeting, Parnas told CNN's Anderson Cooper that he met Poroshenko in early 2019, during the final weeks of Ukraine's presidential campaign, and tried to broker a political arrangement on behalf of Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. According to Parnas, Trump offered to endorse Poroshenko if he announced an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, who was gearing up for his own 2020 campaign at the time.
" The new comments from Parnas as well as reams of text messages, make it clear that he had extremely close ties to Giuliani, including near-daily contacts, but that his interactions with Trump were much less substantive. Backchannel diplomacyRudy Giuliani has coffee with Lev Parnas at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, U.S. September 20, 2019.
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