'I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives,' Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers privately, according to a document obtained by Newsweek.
, have suggested. Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that Parnas and Fruman attempted to influence a former congressman to help oust Yovanovitch at the request of, in part,"one or more Ukrainian government officials." Giuliani was also part of that effort.
Yovanovitch added that she never asked officials to refrain from investigating"actual corruption" within Ukraine, refuting prior claims she disseminated a"do not prosecute" list. Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman also worked to gain dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and to convince the Ukrainian government to investigate them.
Yovanovitch further told lawmakers she was never asked by the Obama administration to help then-candidate Hillary Clinton or harm then-candidate Trump, never met Hunter Biden and never with Joe Biden did she discuss Hunter or Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where Hunter was a board member and which Trump wanted investigated by Ukraine.
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