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Rudy Pal Lev Parnas Releases Audio of Trump Calling for Ukraine Ambassador’s Firing

Betsy Swan

January 25, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

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Lev Parnas's lawyer has released audio that he says captures a April 2018 fundraising dinner that Parnas attended with President Donald Trump and others. The audio indicates that at the dinner, Parnas—recently indicted for campaign finance violations—criticized America's then-ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Trump then called for her to be fired, the audio indicates.

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