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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn the tape Trump says "get rid of her" and "take her out". He does not say fire her goddammit!
Yet that is the narrative both Rachel and MSNBC are pushing.
onenote
(42,704 posts)DeStefano was the guy who carried out Trump's order to let Sally Yates know she was fired. So it makes sense in a way. It also seems relevant that Yovanovitch wasn't actually fired for another 13 months -- and the same day it happened, DeStefano "resigned."
Mersky
(4,982 posts)I think you mean Johnny DeStefano? I just had to look him up - Joes a different Destefano.
tRump very could have meant fire her in thuggish language.
triron
(22,006 posts)Perhaps he meant 'fire her' but not what he said. Perhaps he meant something more.
We don't know. Tell me why did Marie Yovanovitch testify that she was fearful after she was fired?
Mersky
(4,982 posts)It is menacing.
Ferryboat
(922 posts)he is the president, she serves under his direction.
To suggest actions to subordinates that indicate another course of action would indicate something else.
The phrase "she is going to go through some things" seems to indicate a unpleasant experience.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Get rid of her is debatable what it means. But hes talking corruption on tape, his own.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Finally Senator Klobucher made the comment: "All roads lead to Russia"
Rachel keeps acting like Lev is some sort of hero.
triron
(22,006 posts)stopdiggin
(11,312 posts)and may have added substantively to the story and public understanding. But Parnas is hardly any kind of hero .. or patriot. And any intimation that his current performance is anything other than completely self-serving .. just like everything else he's done over the years .. is a complete injustice to the people that have come forward in an effort to serve the country. Please, let's not forget what this man was doing over in Russia and the Ukraine. The man's a corpse sucking parasite!
squirecam
(2,706 posts)To kill her.
triron
(22,006 posts)squirecam
(2,706 posts)For Parnas said Trump wasnt talking to him.