President Trump assailing Marie L. Yovanovitch

https://trendyup2date.blogspot.com/2019/11/president-trump-assailing-marie-l.htmlPresident Trump criticized on Twitter the former ambassador to Ukraine, saying everywhere she served “went bad.” She is recounting her shock and disgust at learning that Mr. Trump
stigmatize her in a call with Ukraine’s president, saying, “Even now, words kind of fail me,” and, “It looked like a threat.”


President Trump wasted little time assailing Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, as she testified during impeachment hearings on Friday, denigrating her career of diplomacy and reasserting his right to remove her.

Ms. Yovanovitch had barely started her day of testimony when Mr. Trump weighed in on Twitter as he sought to turn her description of all the hardship posts she had served in against her.

“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” he wrote. “She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.”

In fact, while he seemed to attribute his decision to remove her in part to the opinion of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Mr. Trump had already removed Ms. Yovanovitch by the time of the July 25 call.

Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, described in calm but strikingly personal terms on Friday “the smear campaign against me” by allies of President Trump working in tandem with corrupt Ukrainians leading to her removal from her post based on false allegations.

In public testimony to the House Intelligence Committee leading the impeachment inquiry, Ms. Yovanovitch flatly denied the “baseless allegations” raised against her by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, and others working with him. She called them part of a “campaign of disinformation” that was orchestrated with Ukrainians because she was a powerful advocate of fighting corruption.

“Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine,” she told the House Intelligence Committee as it opened its second day of public impeachment hearings.

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