A new video recording appears to show President Trump with Lev Parnas at Mar-a-Lago, further calling into question the president's assertion that he doesn’t know Parnas and his associate Igor Fruman.
Former Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, who became entwined in Giuliani’s and Parnas’s campaign to oust former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, was also at the event, according to the recording. Multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials previously told NBC News that Sessions is the"Congressman-1" mentioned in a criminal indictment of Parnas and Fruman on campaign finance charges. Sessions lost re-election in 2018.
Trump can be seen in the beginning and end of the video, taken on a cellphone, including as he poses for a photo with Parnas, who flashes a thumbs-up for the camera. The cellphone was placed on a table during the event with the camera facing the ceiling, so the speakers can only be heard and not seen during most of the video.
Trump has maintained that he doesn’t know Parnas and Fruman as he’s sought to distance himself from the two men and their work with Giuliani to dig up dirt on the president’s political opponents. He’s dismissed the many pictures of himself with the two Soviet-born men as snapshots he takes with thousands of people at campaign events.
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