Last month, Lanny Davis placed a call to Joseph Bondy. Bondy’s legal client, Lev Parnas, had just appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show, and Davis was calling to dispute a claim that Parnas had made about him. But the topic of conversation soon shifted, and Davis offered some advice. “I said to Bondy, ‘You made the right decision,'” Davis recalls, referring to the cable news appearances in which Parnas—who was indicted on campaign finance charges last year—alleged that President Donald Trump was fully aware of Parnas’ efforts to help Rudy Giuliani dig up dirt on Joe Biden. Having broken with his former patrons in the GOP, Parnas has turned his charms on the anti-Trump resistance. Davis was speaking from experience.