House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy dismissed new claims by Lev Parnas that President Trump directed efforts to get Ukraine to undermine former Vice President Joe Biden.
“This man lacks all credibility,” McCarthy, a California Republican, told reporters Thursday.
Parnas has made past statements later proven to be false.
He claimed last year that House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, a California Republican, traveled to Vienna, Austria, to meet with a former Ukraine prosecutor who was fired in connection with demands made by Biden.
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Nunes denied the meeting ever occurred, and he was never in Vienna.
Parnas, under criminal indictment for campaign finance law violations, said he was working on behalf of Trump to get Ukraine to investigate Biden in order to ensure Trump’s victory in 2020. He is making the rounds on cable news with the new claims about the president.
“This is the same man that said Devin Nunes was in Vienna when he was not,” McCarthy said. “So, he doesn’t have any credibility.”
