2020年1月23日，DC华盛顿，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普离开白宫，走向等候的海军陆战队一号直升机，拒绝回答记者的提问。特朗普计划今晚在佛罗里达州多拉尔举行的共和党全国委员会冬季会议上发表讲话。
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据美国广播公司新闻报道，唐纳德·特朗普总统似乎在2018年4月要求罢免玛丽·约瓦诺维奇大使。
“除掉她，”一个自称属于特朗普的声音说，指的是约瓦诺维奇，根据美国广播公司新闻的抄本。“明天带她出去。我不在乎。明天带她出去。带她出去。好吗？动手吧。”
在回答关于录音真实性的问题时，白宫通信主管斯蒂芬妮·格里森提供了新闻周刊用下面的话来说:“我们历史上的每一位总统都有权将支持他的议程和政策的人置于他的政府之内。”
陷入困境的前驻乌克兰大使约瓦诺维奇最终在2019年4月因一桩席卷特朗普政府的丑闻被召回，并引发了历史性的第三次弹劾审判。
2019年7月25日，特朗普在与乌克兰总统沃洛季米尔·泽伦斯基的电话中表示，约瓦诺维奇将“经历一些事情”总统呼吁乌克兰总统对特朗普在2020年总统竞选中的主要政治对手、前副总统乔·拜登展开调查，这为弹劾总统奠定了基础。
约瓦诺维奇在10月份对一个众议院调查小组表示:“尽管我明白，每个人都明白，我是为总统服务的，但据我所知，基于动机明显可疑的人毫无根据和虚假的说法，美国政府选择罢免一名大使，我对此表示怀疑。”。
约瓦诺维奇指控总统私人律师鲁迪·朱利安尼在乌克兰领导一场自由职业运动，诽谤她不忠诚，以激怒她。
该网络称，美国广播公司新闻的录音是由伊戈尔·弗鲁曼录制的，伊戈尔·弗鲁曼是朱利安尼的前合伙人，目前他因涉嫌违反竞选财务条例而受到联邦起诉。
总统此前否认指示朱利安尼在乌克兰搜寻拜登的丑闻，特朗普的助手指责尤万诺维奇阻挠了这项调查。
最近几周，众议院调查人员发布了Lev Parnas提供的短信，Lev Parnas是另一名被起诉的朱利安尼同事，据报道，他也出席了2018年的会议，似乎是试图监视乌克兰的约瓦诺维奇。
在一条信息中，共和党国会候选人罗伯特·海德收到一条来自比利时号码的短信，上面写着:“[·约瓦诺维奇什么都没变，他们今天还是不动了。”
在另一条信息中，同一号码发短信给海德，“她有访客。”
海德说，当他交换据称讨论潜在监视行动的信息时，他是在“玩”，这些信息只不过是“丰富多彩”的语言。
就帕纳斯而言，他告诉MSNBC，他不一定认为海德和比利时人之间的交流是认真的，这表明他认为海德“试图让自己变得比自己更大”
'TAKE HER OUT': 2018 RECORDING REPORTEDLY SHOWS DONALD TRUMP ORDERING REMOVAL OF UKRAINE AMBASSADOR MARIE YOVANOVITCH
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to a waiting Marine One helicopter while declining to answer questions from reporters as he leaves the White House January 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to speak this evening at the Republican National Committee Winter Meeting in Doral, Florida.
President Donald Trump appears to have called for the ouster of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in April 2018, according to a recording of a private meeting at the Trump International Hotel reviewed by ABC News.
"Get rid of her," a voice purportedly belonging to Trump says, referring to Yovanovitch, according to ABC News' transcript. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it."
In response to a question about the recording's authenticity, White House communications director Stephanie Grisham provided Newsweek with the following statement: "Every President in our history has had the right to place people who support his agenda and his policies within his Administration."
Yovanovitch, the embattled former ambassador to Ukraine, was eventually recalled in April 2019 in a sprawling scandal that has engulfed the Trump administration and set off a historic third impeachment trial.
On a July 25, 2019, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Trump indicated that Yovanovitch would be going "through some things." That call, in which the president sought for his Ukrainian counterpart to launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump's chief political rival in the 2020 presidential race, formed the basis for the president's impeachment.
"Although I understand, everyone understands, that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as far as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives," Yovanovitch told a panel of House investigators in October.
Yovanovitch has accused Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, of leading a freelancing campaign in Ukraine to smear her as disloyal in order to provoke her firing.
The ABC News recording was made by Igor Fruman, a former associate of Giuliani's currently under federal indictment for alleged campaign finance violations, the network said.
The president has previously denied directing Giuliani to scour Ukraine for dirt on Biden, a probe that Trump's associates have accused Yovanovitch of obstructing.
In recent weeks, House investigators have released text messages provided by Lev Parnas, another indicted Giuliani associate who was also reportedly present at the 2018 meeting, appearing to show an attempt to surveil Yovanovitch in Ukraine.
In one message, Republican congressional candidate Robert Hyde receives a text from a Belgian number reading, "Nothing has changed [Yovanovitch] is still not moving they check today again."
In another message, the same number texted Hyde, "She had visitors."
Hyde has said he was "playing" when he exchanged messages purportedly discussing a potential surveillance operation, and that the messages were little more than "just colorful" language.
For his part, Parnas told MSNBC that he didn't necessarily believe the exchange between Hyde and the Belgian was serious, indicating that he believed Hyde was "trying to make himself bigger than he was."
