“What continues to amaze me is that [Ukrainians] found Americans willing to partner with them, and working together, they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a U.S. ambassador.” - Marie Yovanovitch
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch took the stand Friday in the second day of public hearings for the House impeachment inquiry and testified that she believed her anti-corruption efforts in that country made her a target of dishonest Ukrainians who were opposed to reforms.
The career foreign service officer has been framed by Democrats as the first victim of President Trump’s scheme in Ukraine. She was recalled by Trump in May after a weeks-long campaign by former Ukrainian officials that was amplified by conservative media outlets, the president’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. The abrupt removal came just two months after Yovanovitch was asked by the State Department to stay on through 2020.
The inquiry began with a whistleblower complaint that raised concerns about the content of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky, but Democrats have seized on a broader narrative that Trump and Giuliani worked on foreign policy outside the normal, established boundaries in order to benefit the president politically.
Transcripts of depositions show several others have testified that the accusations against Yovanovitch have no basis in fact, and that a former Ukrainian prosecutor bragged about lying about the diplomat to an American journalist, who published several articles about Yovanovitch in March 2019 that were quickly picked up by conservative media personalities including Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
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