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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery media outlet has ignored the QUESTION regarding the Parnas tape.
Ask Lev, or his lawyer, what he understood Trump to be saying.
And if the answer is "he wanted us to get her fired"
Then the next question is "how did he expect you to fire a state dept employee?"
And the most direct question is "Did you have any feeling that he wanted physical harm to come to her?"
Come on, MSM!! They were all having drinks and dinner at the Trump Bar.
triron
(22,030 posts)really really scared of going deeper at this point.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)There is a huge meaning difference between "Get rid of her." and "Take her out."
Beartracks
(12,835 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,131 posts)That was addressed on Rachel Maddow's show. As far as firing Yavanovitch - The lawyer said that Trump was asking Johnny DeStefano and other staffers not Parnas.
BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)quickly, not wanting to really devote much time to it though.
cilla4progress
(24,798 posts)With parnas and fruman present?
Back channels much?
Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)stopdiggin
(11,411 posts)than the gangland slaying of a U.S. ambassador?
Or because Trump could have had her dismissed (as he eventually did 13 months later) at any time he chose to?
brettdale
(12,389 posts)The fact that is still not being talked 24/7 disgusts me.
Beartracks
(12,835 posts)erlewyne
(1,115 posts)Why didn't pResident tRump say that a year ago? It was his unquestionable right.
What a sleaze-bag!
onenote
(42,829 posts)DeStefano was the same aide that wrote the letter telling Sally Yates she had been fired by Trump. So why didn't DeStefano carry out Trump's command with respect to Yovonovitch? Good question. My guess is that DeStefano talked to someone at the State Department and was tol ignore Trump's order--something which we know aides did not infrequently. Trump's attention span being that of a gnat, he moves on and forgets about her for the next year. But the whole Ukraine/Biden thing gets going and he realizes she's still there, so this time he fires her. And, coincidentally (or not) John DeStefano, the guy who didn't carry out that command a year earlier, resigns the same day Yovonovitch is fired.
malaise
(269,278 posts)Rec