While insightful, the author looks at the testimony in the wrong perspective and so misses the the Democrats purpose for involving Yovanovitch, Republican strategy to counter her role and how Republicans brilliantly turned the tables to make Yovo Schiffs biggest unforced error so far in the impeachment farce.
The Republicans absolutely de fused Yovo’s emotional appeal to working woman voters by killing the female job discrimination angle and her intended emotional crying for sympathy act and hit it out of the park with their questioning of yovanovitch.
Republicans politely and respectfully forced Yovanovitch to formally admit in sworn testimony
She served at Presidents pleasure Trump had absolute right to fire her for any and all reasons or even for no reason at all.
She still has a State Dept job and that job is a plumb position and dream billet for foreign service officers - a prestigious Senior Fellowship at even more prestigious GeorgeTown University so no retaliation or demotion for her - she was promoted up to a dream job
She has no evidence of wrongdoing of any kind by President Trump and she can identify no impeachable offense by Trump
She was removed from office before any of the events occurred so she has no first hand knowledge and she has never met Trump or most of other senior players
All information told to her by Amb Kent regarding Trump conversations was later found to be provably false
The only testimony she can give against Trump is that she is not happy with the way he terminated her and recalled her from Ukraine
What testimony she could provide about Ukraine corruption and the Bidens and Obama Admin was so incredibly damaging its hard to see how Democrats allowed her to be publicly questioned under oath
Fundamental is understanding that the house hearings only relevant as far as they document the Case Republicans will make to senate
At this point an impeachment vote in house is almost a foregone conclusion no matter what testimony is given and the house Kangaroo Court will vote to impeach .
Everything is about teeing things up for Senate hearings and for once Republicans did everything they needed to do and just nailed the execution
“Respectfully disagree with the authors analysis”
You made a very well thought out analysis. I did not think about it in the detail you did, but did come away with the general impression that the Dims had merely spun their wheels with this witness.