There’s literally nothing comforting about the Trump administration, but, as we’ve come to learn over the past three years, there are things we can rely on. For instance, we can rest easy in the knowledge that for every moronic, belligerent, unintelligible, or self-serving action taken by Donald Trump, one can easily find a tweet he sent prior to becoming president warning against doing literally the exact same thing. (This phenomenon is known as “there’s always a tweet,” and, 9 times out of 10, concerns Barack Obama.) We can go to sleep on a Tuesday and know that by the time we wake up on Wednesday, the president will have said something certifiably insane, like that the sound from windmills “causes cancer.” And, we can rest assured that every single time a person in Trump’s orbit is either personally accused of wrongdoing or accuses him of similar behavior, he’ll pretend not to know the person, even if he’s met them on numerous occasions and especially if there’s photographic evidence.

Today‘s example naturally comes in the form of the president’s denial re: knowing Lev Parnas. As a quick reminder, Parnas is the indicted business associate of Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who reportedly played a major role in the plot to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, having allegedly been recruited by Trump during a party at the White House. On Tuesday, Democrats released a trove of ridiculously incriminating evidence obtained from Parnas, including notes he took about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and text messages concerning forcing out U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (and what sure looks like a highly disturbing surveillance scheme.) On Wednesday, Parnas appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, during which he told her, “President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn’t do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani, or the president.”

And on Thursday, like clockwork:

Setting aside the fact that Trump’s personal attorney wrote an email saying that the president personally signed off on Parnas telling people he was part of Trump’s legal team, there is a cornucopia of photos of the two men together as well as at least one video:

And, according to Parnas, there’s more where that came from!