Lev Parnas' 19-year-old law student son writes tell-all

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Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand 14m
New: As Giuliani dug for dirt on Biden, waged shadow diplomatic campaigns in Venezuela and Turkey, and spoke regularly to Trump about all of it, a 19-year-old law student was quietly watching and soaking it all in—and he’s now written a new tell-all: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/lev-parnas-son-trump-tell-all-433790

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The saga of Lev Parnas, a close former Giuliani associate and fixer, is familiar by now: Parnas helped Giuliani investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s dealings in Ukraine, an endeavor that ultimately led to the president’s impeachment.

Unknown until this week, however, was that Parnas’ son Aaron was present for much of it. And he has now written an eyewitness account of many of the backchannel dealings conducted by Giuliani and a small group of his confidants to help their clients — chief among them the president of the United States.

“I had no intention of writing this book before a few weeks ago,” the younger Parnas, who recently graduated from George Washington University Law School in D.C., said in an interview. “But after I finished the bar exam, I began thinking about how young Republicans and young people in general often feel like they don't have a place in the political system and might not want to vote. So I thought if they were able to see what I saw — maybe it would help them make a decision.”

The 153-page memoir, titled “TRUMP FIRST: How the President and his associates turned their backs on me and my family,” traces Parnas’ journey from an enthusiastic Trump supporter in 2016 — he even volunteered for the campaign in Florida — to an eager Biden voter in 2020.

read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/lev-parnas-son-trump-tell-all-433790

[PCIntern]

1. He graduated from law school at 19?

Holy crap. That’s five or six years ahead of conventional promotion.

[Silent3]

3. It just says he's a law student, not that he has graduated n/t

[MissB]

7. It says he graduated

?

[Texin]

13. The article also said he passed the bar exam.

He not only graduated from law school, he managed to get his bar license. What isn't clear is whether he is still nineteen or was that age in 2019, which is the timeframe that he writes about in his memoir. He may be over 20 or 21 by now. Still -- he's awfully young. Quite an accomplishment.

[Klaralven]

15. 21 to be admitted to the bar

[Ms. Toad]

23. Nope. Don't know where you are getting that from

But, at best, it would be true on a state by state basis, since each state makes their own rules. I am not specifically aware of any jurisdiction with such rule - and bar admission is a large part of my job.

[Klaralven]

25. Teen with FAU degree and presidential aspirations heads to law school

You get the feeling that if he could get his law degree in one year instead of three, he would do that. It turns out the one thing that can slow Parnas down is the law.

“The minimum age to take the bar is 21,” he said. “So I have to wait three years anyway.”

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/teen-with-fau-degree-and-presidential-aspirations-heads-law-school/5Tj0jHwkKAF1yOQkMNbzgM/

It didn't say what jurisdiction he was targeting. Couldn't find much on line about minimum age to take the exam, but Texas has an 18 age limit for licensing.

There is an old article from 1988 about a 21 year limit in New York, but I couldn't find a current article. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/20/nyregion/lawyer-19-must-wait-for-the-bar.html

[Ms. Toad]

26. There is some logic behind 18

Since contracts entered into by minors are voidable, unless for necessities. It would be challenging to practice law without entering into contracts, and allowing one who can't be bound by that contract to enter a profession that largely requires contracts would not be in the best interests of the public.

Pretty sure none of my students are under 21, so it isn't something that would come up much. But rules vary considerably from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so it certainly isn't true across the board.

[Ms. Toad]

21. It says he took the bar exam.

Because of COVID 19, most results aren't known yet. It doesn't say which bar exam he took, but many took the bar exam on October 3& 4, which would fit with the description of "a few weeks ago."

[GoCubsGo]

8. I think he was 19 in 2015 or 2016.

Which would make him around 24 now. Still ahead of the curve, maybe, but nowhere nearly that much.

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9. read this from 2017

Teen with FAU degree and presidential aspirations heads to law school

By his own account, Aaron Parnas was just a “normal high schooler.” He got his work done. He did what he needed to do to graduate and he had a “life like any other high school kid.”

Except for the fact that when he graduated from Florida Atlantic University High School, he did so with a 5.4 weighted GPA.

He also didn’t officially graduate from high school until after he had already graduated from college, receiving his bachelor’s degree from FAU with a 3.9 GPA and magna cum laude honors. And he wants to be president of the United States.

So, at the age of 18, Parnas is headed to law school at George Washington University this fall. The plan is to finish his studies in three years and then, at age 21, take the bar exam and head into corporate law, mergers and acquisitions.

Listening to Parnas talk about his plans, it almost seems like they are already completed. But that’s the confidence that comes with a person who, as a senior in high school, wrote an honors senior thesis examining the way capital punishment influences homicide rates in various countries around the world. That thesis allowed him to be one of 10 FAU graduates this year to receive a special honors distinction on their bachelor’s degree.

You get the feeling that if he could get his law degree in one year instead of three, he would do that. It turns out the one thing that can slow Parnas down is the law.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/teen-with-fau-degree-and-presidential-aspirations-heads-law-school/5Tj0jHwkKAF1yOQkMNbzgM/

[iluvtennis]

17. Wow, at 18 this young man simultaneoulsy got high school diploma and Bachelor's degree.!

[MoonchildCA]

32. At first, I read it like that as well.

But it says he was in on the conversation and meetings when he was 19.
They took place a couple years ago.

[Mike 03]

2. Interesting:

In all, Parnas—an aspiring lawyer who told the Palm Beach Post in a 2017 profile that “one day I hope to be president of the United States”—says he attended “dozens of meetings” over less than two years with his father, Giuliani and the rest of the BLT Prime Team, as he says they called themselves. The team included Fruman, conservative lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, and conservative columnist John Solomon.

[plimsoll]

4. Always bothers me that "Enthusiastic Trump supporter in 2016,"

Couldn’t see what trump was. We haven’t seen anything we didn’t know in 2016, everything he’s done was entirely predictable. I’m glad they’ve come to their senses, but let’s be blunt, needing to be hit upside the head with a 2x4 should not be required to convince one that pain is painful.

Pro tip don’t employ a firm a legal firm that has a Parnas, and check the JD, GW is sounding more and more like a diploma mill.

[liberalla]

29. I totally agree! It was known in 2015 what a corrupt, sleazeball con man he was!

No big secret! They did no vetting on the man. It was all there to be known if anyone cared.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

30. Well, one has to wonder, if Trump hadn't "turned his back"

on the Parnas family, if they'd still be Trump supporters.

[JI7]

31. I think people like Parnas and Michael Cohen are those that want Fame

They want to be seen as part of the "cool crowd".

They want to feel like famous people like them and when they do as Trump did with turning on them or denying they knew them they feel bad.

The same with that woman that wrote the Melania and me book.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Parnas Jr. "trumps" Claudia Conway.

[Illumination]

6. Rachel Maddow would probably love to read the book. She had Lev Parnas & Igor Fruman on

her show...

[KewlKat]

10. Anyone buying the kindle copy?

[Klaralven]

14. Free on Kindle unlimited

[reACTIONary]

16. I didn't take advantage of it...

.... but it looks like you can read it on line, using the link from the politico article. You have to "sign up"and I'm not going to do that myself. But FYI here is the link:

https://aaronparnas.com/optin1603841394197

[Hip2bSquare]

11. tRump's campaign logo should be a sieve

Thank goodness for these brave souls. A few more days...hopefully we can look at all this through the rear view window.

Until then, may the leaks continue!

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. The level of stupidity amongst the RUMP minions is

truly ASTOUNDING.

[panfluteman]

18. As I Read the Article, It Really Gave Me Hope for the Younger Generation.

Aaron Parnas seems like a really intelligent and promising young lawyer, a guy who will really go far, and - who knows? - may even become president someday. Our country needs more young people like him, who are willing to speak the truth in an age of lies and disinformation campaigns.

I am eagerly looking forward to his book when it comes out. This will definitely be a unique and valuable addition to the "second Trump Tower" of tell all books, which may now be rivaling the original Trump Tower in its height and stature.

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. It would have been nice to publish this earlier.

This isn't going to have the reach and effect that it might have. I get that he was probably insanely busy up till then, but still...

[bigtree]

22. not for the election

...but when he loses or improbably wins, Trump's going to need checking in the post-election straddle to the inaguration.

[NBachers]

20. Derp State

[Baked Potato]

24. Rudy should take a long walk off a short pier. For America, of course.

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R

[Cha]

28. Wow! ".. to an eager Biden voter in 2020."