Lev Parnas wants to testify, but the White House doesn’t want the public to hear testimony from the man who was able to pull a few stings in Ukraine, so Rudy Giuliani could send messages to President Zelensky. Rudy’s message to Zelensky was play ball with Mr.Trump. and he could meet with the president and get the military aide he needed to fight Russian aggression.
Mr. Parnas is an alleged criminal, so his testimony doesn’t count, according to several reports. But Mr. Parnas has an extraordinary amount of evidence that suggests other members of the administration played roles in the Ukraine affair. Mr. Giuliani hired Lev, and his pal Igor Fruman because he knew they had connections in Ukraine and they weren’t afraid to use those connections to help Rudy Giuliani conducted an investigation. Igor and Lev face campaign finance violations as well as other charges.
The Megxit saga in Britain got a little messier when the Queen told Harry and Meghan being part-time royals won’t work. She stripped the couple of their His Highness and Her Highness titles, and she almost took back their Duck and Duchess of Sussex titles. It’s still unclear if Harry and Meghan will be able to use those titles now that the couple wants to be normal folks, not Royalty.
When Harry tried to explain his decision to throw his pedigree to the curb, it seemed he regretted the move. But in order to make Meghan happy, he threw his family out with the Royal trash, and he went to Vancouver to be with his wife and baby Archie.
Trump’s legal team got bigger when the White House announced eight House Republicans will be members of Trump’s legal team. McConnell objected to the idea, but Trump said all eight men did an outstanding job during the impeachment hearings. All those congressmen will defend the president during the impeachment hearing.
Former Trumpian Gary Cohn told the press Trump’s tariff addiction hurts more than helps the U.S. economy. The manufacturing sector took a big hit from the steel and aluminum tariffs. Companies in the auto industry couldn’t expand the way they wanted because the cost of building new facilities became too expensive. And consumers pay the yearly tariff tab, and that hurts the economy. Cohn claims the 2017 tax cut didn’t help middle America because the tariffs made raw material prices explode.
Further Reading: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-19/trump-s-former-economic-chief-gary-cohn-predicts-no-recession
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