Senate mulls Rudy pal testimony

Lev Parnas, Rudy Giuliani’s former right-hand man in Ukraine, renewed an offer to testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial on Thursday — and the Senate might just take him up on his offer.

Fresh off an eleventh-hour impeachment evidence dump and an explosive television interview, Parnas’ attorney said he would be gung-ho to go under oath at Trump’s trial and spill the beans on the president’s shady plot to shake down Ukraine for political favors.

“We are hopeful Mr. Parnas will be called upon to provide sworn testimony, explain the evidence and be cross-examined fully at the impeachment trial,” the attorney, Joseph Bondy, told the Daily News. “Mr. Parnas is committed to giving complete, truthful and verifiable testimony in furtherance of the national interest.”

Parnas, who was a pointperson on Giuliani’s Trumpendorsed bid to find dirt in Ukraine on Joe Biden and other Democratic rivals, went on MSNBC Wednesday night and made bombshell allegations about the lengths to which he and others went in doing the president’s dubious bidding.

Among other eye-popping claims, Parnas said that Attorney General William Barr was part of the “team” that worked on the Ukraine effort and that Trump “knew exactly what was going on” in the push for investigations of Biden.

The interview came just one day after the House Intelligence Committee released text messages and other records from Parnas that appeared to back up some of his most intense assertions.

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who’s the lead impeachment manager presenting the Democratic case for Trump’s removal at the trial, said the new developments warranted serious consideration of Parnas as a trial witness. “We are continuing to review his interviews and the materials he has provided,” Schiff said in a statement.