Take her out. Neither Lev nor Igor had the authority to fire Yavonovich.

[we can do it]

Why isn’t this being brought up?

Of course ambassadors work at the pleasure of potus. If he wanted her fired, why didn’t he just instruct Pompeo to do it instead of telling Roodie’s thugs to “Take her out”.
We’re really not that stupid.

[LakeArenal]

1. Unless of course he wanted her killed.

[we can do it]

2. That's what it sounds like to me.🤬

[enough]

3. According to Lev's lawyer, a high level Trump staffer was in the room.

He says that’s who Trump was giving the order to.

This was on Maddow last night. He named the staffer, but I don’t remember the name.

[UniteFightBack]

14. That's what I thought first too...ok who ELSE was in the room? nt

[cilla4progress]

4. Seems legit, yes?

I mean, ordering it out loud in a group including thugs with connections to Russian intelligence?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. He seems to have been talking to a WH aide, DeStefano.

"Parnas has previously described the dinner in interviews, saying he witnessed Trump telling a top aide, John DeStefano, to fire the ambassador." https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/politics/trump-phone-call-ukraine-ambassador/index.html

[we can do it]

9. I think Lev is trying to save his own ass.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Of course, just like Cohen was trying to save his.

Once you get drawn into the Trump orbit your ass is in danger, and the only way to save it is to throw yourself on the mercy of the courts or the media or someone else who isn't part of the Trump orbit.

[louis-t]

6. This will only get worse if he's allowed.

You know he got off on killing Soleimani. He admires that power that Jong Un and Putin have. They can kill anyone who disagrees with them.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. He had already tried to fire her.

They complained she wouldn’t leave.

This was something else.

And what’s with the pundits, saying of the new tape...he wanted her fired? He never said fired, his favorite word, on the tape.

Snow job

[we can do it]

8. They could have reassigned her at any time.

Saying she was going to go through some things, and take her out doesn’t sound reasonable from the person with the authority to have her reassigned.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Because he does not have even a basic understanding of how our government works.

He believes if he says something - it happens

This is a man who is using his personal counsel to carry out government business - and who firmly believes that the attorney general is there to do his personal bidding.

While I'm sure he would not have been disappointed if she died, he was not ordering a hit. He was ordering her removal from Ukraine, where he viewed her as obstructing his goals.

[we can do it]

16. I'm not so sure he wasn't ordering a hit.

[Ms. Toad]

20. From my perspective,

That thought belongs in crazy talk/conspiracy theory.

That blustery/crass/ignorant way of speaking - and his ignorance of how things work - is stunning. He wants something done (Ambassador Yovanovitch to stop gumming up the works - he wants it to stop). He's afraid the republican senators might not hold the line He's not going to stop and ask himself who the proper person to fire her is - he's going to blster to whoever is closest to him, or on his mind, or walks in the door next & tell them to get rid of her (meaning make her stop getting in my way.) Just like he threatens Republican senators with their heads on spikes.

Think of how many times he's said something very simliar when protesters sneak into his campaign rallies.

He's just an idioic jerk. He doesn't have the brains, or self-awareness to be an effective mob boss.

[Firestorm49]

12. Aw, shit, Eric Price is probably running the show anyway.

[we can do it]

19. Blackwater anyone?

[wishstar]

13. Lev said Trump continued ranting about her for over a year but never fired her

Seems extremely suspicious that instead of simply having John Di Stefano send her notice of reassignment and removing her officially which is done frequently, especially by new presidents as Di Stefano did for Sally Yates, Trump instead carried on a long smear campaign using Giuliani, Don Jr, and rightwingers. Lev said that on numerous occasions in front of Lev and other lowlifes including that guy Robert Hyde who sent Lev the stalking texts, Trump complained about how much he wanted her removed and taken out.

Only conclusion to me was that he wanted the henchmen to intimidate and stalk her and he would have welcomed whatever they cooked up to silence her so she wouldn't be able or she would be afraid to say anything about their nefarious pro-Russia schemes going on.

[we can do it]

17. The exchange between Lev and Hyde seems pretty ominous.

There is no reason a man who loves saying “you’re fired” would say “take her out”, when he could just have her assigned elsewhere. Why bother stalking her? And “things can happen in the Ukraine if you have money”....Lev saying it wasn’t a hit being discussed is the one thing I didn’t believe in his interview with Rachel. He didn’t want that blame on top of everything else.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Kick this one.

[onenote]

18. Its not being brought up because Parnas himself said the command was directed to a Trump aide

So it wouldn't make much sense to be discussing why Trump told Parnas to get rid of her since that's not what happened according to Parnas himself.

The command was given to Joe DeStefano and asking DeStefano to handle the firing of someone isn't that suprising. DeStefano is the guy that wrote the letter to Sally Yates telling her Trump had fired her. And according to Parnas, DeStefano pushed back on the command because Pompeo was still awaiting confirmation at the time.

[rockfordfile]

21. It didn't really matter how.