...WhatsApp communications turned over this week to the committees leading the U.S. House impeachment investigation and sent to the U.S. Senate to be considered as part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing trial show that GOP donor Harry Sargeant regularly corresponded with South Florida businessman Lev Parnas about Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and “Rudy” — almost certainly a reference to Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The messages — some of which were redacted by the government — also show that Sargeant paid for at least some of Parnas’ travels at a time when the Ukrainian-born liaison was meeting and corresponding with Ukrainian officials in order to push the government to remove Yovanovitch and investigate former Vice President Joe Biden....

In the days after, Parnas and Sargeant continued to discuss Yovanovitch by text until her removal became public knowledge in early May. Parnas told Sargeant “she’s gone” on March 23 and wrote him exactly one month later — the day before Yovanovitch was quietly recalled by the U.S. — to say “the bomb is dropping tomorrow.”

“Awesome!!” Sargeant replied when Parnas told him in May that Yovanovitch had indeed been pulled back to Washington....