The audio file reviewed by ABC News matches a description by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani.
But the 2018 conversation about Yovanovitch also raises questions about the impetus behind the effort to push her out, indicating that it began before the Ukraine pressure campaign.
The dinner took place before Parnas and Fruman began working with Giuliani and seven months before Giuliani has said he began his Ukraine investigation — suggesting that the duo were agitating against the ambassador for another reason and may have biased Trump against her early on.Parnas’s attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, said that the recording was not leaked by him or his client, but that it validates Parnas’s recollection of that event with Trump.“For some time, Mr.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow, asked about the tape, told reporters in the Capitol that he’s “not concerned about that at all.” Vice President Pence was asked about the tape Friday during an impromptu news conference with reporters in Italy.“I have not heard the tape and would not be prepared to comment on it. All of the ambassadors for the United States of America serve at the pleasure of the president of the United States,” Pence said, according to a pool report.The audio, he added, “will only confirm what people already know: is that the president had concerns, and in his authority this president made a decision.
The recording provides further evidence of the long-running effort to push out Yovanovitch, whose ouster was sought by Yuri Lutsenko, formerly Ukraine’s top prosecutor.
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