WASHINGTON — A former affiliate of Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s private lawyer, stated on Friday that he had turned over to congressional Democrats a recording from 2018 of the president ordering the dismissal of Marie L. Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine on the time.
The affiliate, Lev Parnas, who labored with Mr. Giuliani on the trouble to oust the ambassador and to stress the Ukrainian authorities to pursue investigations to assist Mr. Trump, positioned the recording on Friday after its existence was first reported by ABC News, stated Mr. Parnas’s lawyer, Joseph A. Bondy.
Mr. Bondy stated it “is of excessive materiality to the impeachment inquiry” of Mr. Trump, which Home Democrats are presenting within the Senate. He stated the tape had been offered to the Home Intelligence Committee, whose chairman, Consultant Adam B. Schiff, is main the Home impeachment managers of their presentation of the case in opposition to Mr. Trump to the Senate.
The recording emerged as Democrats are urgent the Senate to name extra witnesses and search further proof for the trial, saying there may be extra to be discovered concerning the stress marketing campaign in opposition to Ukraine.
Democrats argued on Friday that the recording bolsters their argument that there could also be related proof that has but to be thought of.
ABC reported that Mr. Trump might be heard on the tape saying, “Do away with her.” In line with ABC, the president went on to say: “Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. O.Ok.? Do it.”
Mr. Parnas had previously recounted how he and one other affiliate of Mr. Giuliani, Igor Fruman, had met with Mr. Trump on the Trump Worldwide Resort in Washington in April 2018. At that assembly, Mr. Parnas relayed a rumor that Ms. Yovanovitch, then the American ambassador in Kyiv, was bad-mouthing the president — an unsubstantiated declare that Ms. Yovanovitch has denied, in keeping with two folks with data of the dinner.