“Get rid of her!' Trump responds. 'Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it.”
President Trump and Lev Parnas, thumbing it up. Photo: @josephabondy/Twitter The lawyer representing Lev Parnas has released a 2018 recording on which President Trump tells him and other associates to “get rid of” then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. On Friday, ABC News reported on the contents of the tape, which Parnas’s lawyer, Joseph Bondy, has given to the House Intelligence Committee and federal prosecutors in New York’s Southern District.
The hour-long recording captures part of a private April 30, 2018 dinner where Trump, Parnas, and Parnas’s then-business partner, Igor Fruman, discussed Ukraine. Parnas and Fruman worked for Trump and his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, as backchannel operatives in Ukraine, where the group was trying to pressure the government to help dig up politically damaging dirt on the Biden family.
The comments come 42 minutes into the video, at which point the participants can only be heard, not seen:
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