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Report: Trump and Parnas Discussed Firing Ukraine Ambassador in 2018At Trumps Hotel
DAN FRIEDMAN at Mother Jones
Julia Weeks/AP
https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2020/01/report-trump-and-parnas-discussed-firing-ukraine-ambassador-in-2018-at-trumps-hotel/
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Its the corruption, stupid. According to a new report, President Donald Trump said nearly two years ago that he wanted Marie Yovanovitch, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine, removed from her post.
ABC News reported Friday that it had obtained an audio recording of an intimate April 2018 dinner at Trumps Washington hotel that included, among others, the president and Lev Parnas, the since-indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani. According to the news outlet, a voice that sounds like Trump states during the recording: Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I dont care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it. Trump said this, according to ABC, after Parnas told him that Yovanovitch was a problem and was basically walking around telling everybody, Wait, hes gonna get impeached. Just wait. Its not clear exactly who Trump was instructing to get rid of her.
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The ABC report further belies Trumps never-credible claim that he does not know Parnas. It also suggests that efforts to force out Yovanovitch were underway more than a year before her eventual removal from her post and before Zelenskys May 2019 election.
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The dinner at which Trump reportedly asked for Yovanovitchs removal came 18 days before the recorded date of a $325,000 donation that Parnas and his partner, Igor Fruman, gave to a pro-Trump SuperPAC, America First Action. They made the contribution through a Delaware shell company, a step that drew federal scrutiny and resulted in the October 2019 indictment of Parnas and Fruman on campaign finance violations.
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cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)"donors." Being instructed by drumpf to take out Yovanovitch.
Seems legit.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)about him so he said take her out? And then he got money from them as a reward for planning to get rid of her as ambassador. Where did Parnas' money come from?
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Parnas told drumpf yovanovitch was in the way. Of what? June 2018
applegrove
(118,677 posts)from Parnas and russian friend. Did Putin find Yovanovitch not to his liking?