"Take her out" means exactly that. It's a reference to removing her at any and all cost, including physically.

She is right to be in fear for her life.

but of course the media already made sure they defined what he meant.

We all know what he really meant which is why there was such a rush to get her out of there.

I also wouldn't tell GOP Senators their heads will be on pikes.

Death threats suck!

literally, he could have simply said "I'm appointing a new ambassador, you are done there" and she'd have packed up and gone to whatever her next assignment would be, but he can't resist being a petty little motherfucker so he had to be as evil and nasty as possible.

horrible. We need to ruin his .....quid pro quo!

he is the worst version of a human-shaped creature possible.

is probably the strongest wording I've heard in the corporate world in 30+ years.

Take Her Out - AT BEST - if it doesn't mean violence, would imply (to me) setting her up/framing her to justify firing her.

they called her and told her to get on the next flight. Horrible.

Boy, I could something about that phrase............oh Hi Agent Mike.

for a firing context, as aggressive as even that phrasing is.

"Get rid of her!" is what the voice that appears to be Trump’s is heard saying. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it."

You take opponents and obstacles to what you want out and you take them down. The typical low-level employee, no.

We haven't heard the entire story by any means. Our ambassador was the face of American force against Ukrainian, and thus Russian, corruption. All Ukrainian oligarchs have strong ties to Putin and organized crime, if they're not the crime leaders themselves. Why didn't Trump just take her out like a clerk? He wanted to since early 2017 and could always have just recalled "the woman," including when in April he demanded she be taken out! By tomorrow!. Didn't happen. Why?

Yovanovich's testimony was honest but not complete. Of necessity, no doubt. There must have been reasons, beyond Trump's malice, why she had to be taken out by elaborate schemes that took frustrating months for a bunch of criminal clowns to put together and screw up. And who else was involved? Pelosi says all Trump's roads lead to Russia.

He knows exactly what it means to "take someone out" implies. And I have no doubt that his meaning was not lost on those who were ordered.

You "take her out" for a nice dinner and then break the news?

It means just what it means! KILL her! None of these idiot senate rethugs are Americans, in my book!

They don't fire people from their job.