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