A copy of the recording has been obtained by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, ABC reported.
"Every president in our history has had the right to place people who support his agenda and his policies within his administration," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNBC.
"Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it," Trump said in the recording, ABC reported.The small event at Trump's hotel in Washington, D.C., reportedly included Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who worked with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in his efforts in 2019 to get Ukraine to announce probes into Trump's political opponents and a debunked theory about the 2016 election.
The pressure campaign toward Ukraine, conducted while the Trump administration withheld millions of dollars in congressionally appropriated military aid to the country, led House Democrats to impeach Trump on articles of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress last month.Yovanovitch was fired in May 2019. She testified as part of the House impeachment inquiry that she felt threatened by Trump and his allies, who had disparaged her even after she was removed from her post.
Parnas has been cooperating with Democratic investigators. Less than a week before the Senate trial proceedings began, Parnas and his lawyer, Joseph Bondy,. That evidence included text messages, phone records, handwritten notes and other materials."Every president in our history has had the right to place people who support his agenda and his policies within his administration," Grisham said in an emailed statement.
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