Exercise in disproving own case:

Indicted Giuliani associate attended private ‘16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/11/lev-parnas-giuliani-trump-private-party-044698
https://archive.is/qtAVU

Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the latest scandal that threatens his presidency on Thursday by saying he didn’t know either of the foreign-born Rudy Giuliani associates that his own Justice Department had just indicted for alleged campaign finance violations.
> guilt by association

But that’s not what one of the men said three years ago — while attending Trump’s invite-only 2016 election night party in New York. 
> the claim is more important than the truth, just like "believe all women"

In fact, Lev Parnas described himself to a foreign correspondent at the cash-bar event in midtown Manhattan as a friend of the president-elect who didn’t live far from his South Florida winter home. 
> as if living in proximity to Mar-a-Lago = very close friends

Parnas arrived at Trump’s November 2016 election night party, which was held in a ballroom at the Midtown Hilton, with two other men in suits
> a if no other men were in suits at the party
and their heavily made-up wives, according to a forgotten but newly relevant dispatch from the event published at the time in Le Figaro, France’s oldest daily newspaper. 
> as if the claims made are automatically true because it's France's oldest newspaper

The Ukrainian-born businessman told the paper that a friend from his hometown of Boca Raton, Fla., had hosted several fundraising events for Trump and that his daughter had traveled around the state singing on the candidate’s behalf. It is not clear what friend Parnas was referring to. 
> guilt by association

The newspaper described Parnas as an insurer. (Parnas co-founded a company, Fraud Guarantee, that at some point retained Giuliani as a lawyer.) 
> implying conflict of interest

The new detail connecting Trump and Parnas at the same election night party in November 2016 raises fresh questions about the president’s insistence that he doesn’t know the Ukrainian-born businessman. 
> Ukranian-born man makes claim, must be true!

It comes amid a rapidly unspooling investigation that appears headed for a House vote to impeach the president. On Thursday, Democrats probing Trump’s outreach to Ukrainian officials seeking an investigation into his political opponents sent subpoenas to both Parnas and his Florida-based partner, Igor Fruman, just hours after DOJ unsealed its indictments against the two businessmen. 
> does "rapidly unspooling" mean it's falling apart or just getting started?
> 2 men receive subpoenas, hours later they are arrested - implying coordination?

John Dowd, who represents both men, also confirmed in a letter to Congress earlier this week that his clients were assisting Giuliani “in connection with his representation of President Trump” — a partnership that the former New York mayor openly said was about pressing for help in Kiev that would undercut the 2020 Democratic front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden. 
> intentionally misrepresenting what Giuliani has clearly stated: he was investigating this during the Mueller probe, long before Joe Biden declared himself as a candidate.

Back in 2016, Hillary Clinton’s thousands-strong extravaganza at the Javits Center on election night drew a sharp contrast with Trump’s election night event, which was relatively cozy and where die-hard supporters barely outnumbered the throngs of media on hand. 
> HRC's "extravaganza" that turned into a morose and painful gathering as they all reeled in shock that she didn't win
> POTUS' smaller, more modest gathering

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