A video released yesterday shows Trump demanding the dismissal of US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch at a party with sponsors.

Video taken by phone at a dinner party in 2018, nearly 90 minutes long, was published by lawyer Joseph Bondy, who represents Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas. Parnas is also a partner of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer.

In the video, the man believed to be Parnas asked Trump to dismiss the US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, said she was "a remnant from the Clinton administration" and told everyone that the US President "would be review dismissal ".

Shortly thereafter, Trump got angry and announced that he wanted Yovanovitch to leave the next day.

"Get her fired. Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Okay? Let's do it," Trump said, apparently with a White House aide. same table.

The video also shows that although Trump insisted he did not know Parnas and another Giuliani partner Igor Fruman, a Belarusian-American businessman, he spoke openly to both of them at the party.

More than a year later, Ms. Yovanovitch, a diplomat with 32 years of experience who served through the presidents of the Democratic and Republican presences, was dismissed. Yovanovitch denied being disloyal to Trump and State Department officials are said to have said she made no mistake.

The video came after the Republican-controlled US Senate on January 21 opened a hearing to dismiss Trump on two charges of abuse of power and congressional congress on a House of Representatives proposal. Bondy said he released the video because it was "important to our national interest" and urged Republican senators to "summon the witnesses" during the recall hearing. Trump. Both businessmen Parnas and Fruman were arrested in October 2019 for illegally transferring money to an election committee supporting Trump and other politicians.

In a January 24 interview with Fox News, Trump defended his decision to fire Yovanovitch and ignored the question of whether he was influenced by Parnas.

"I have every right, I want the ambassadors of my choice. I have the right to hire and fire ambassadors, and that is very important," the president said.