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Ex-Ukraine ambassador sounds off after Trump acquittal: 'I have seen dictatorships' (Yovanovitch)
Fox News ^ | February 6 2020 | Ronn Blitzer

Posted on 02/06/2020 7:29:59 AM PST by knighthawk

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch accused the Trump administration of “undermining” American political ideals and called for Americans to “fight” for democracy in a Washington Post op-ed published Thursday.

Yovanovitch, who was removed from her post in May 2019 amid a campaign against her by Trump associates, alternated between dire warnings and hope for the future in the wake of the president’s acquittal Wednesday in his Senate impeachment trial.

“I have seen dictatorships around the world, where blind obedience is the norm and truth-tellers are threatened with punishment or death,” she wrote. “We must not allow the United States to become a country where standing up to our government is a dangerous act.”

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More liberal tears!
1 posted on 02/06/2020 7:29:59 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Someone post the pic of the screaming liberal on her knees!


2 posted on 02/06/2020 7:31:04 AM PST by pangaea6
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To: knighthawk

She sounds like a moron, Jim.


3 posted on 02/06/2020 7:31:24 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: knighthawk

“I’m ass-mad someone I didn’t like became President and it eventually led to my firing.”


4 posted on 02/06/2020 7:32:31 AM PST by StoneRainbow68
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To: knighthawk

She has a cushy job at the State Department.

She was never fired.

She’s an ingrate and shameless.

Swamp hubris.


5 posted on 02/06/2020 7:33:44 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: knighthawk

Yes, because dictatorships always fight for the people’s rights to keep and bear arms, to speak freely what’s on their minds, and to freely exercise their religious conscience.

Yet, people will believe what she says.


6 posted on 02/06/2020 7:33:47 AM PST by Westbrook
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To: knighthawk

Once more, the permanent administrative state bleats at having “their” power and influence undermines by actual elected officials.


7 posted on 02/06/2020 7:35:24 AM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: knighthawk

“I have seen dictatorships around the world, where blind obedience is the norm and truth-tellers are threatened with punishment or death,”

So she thinks you shouldn’t try to impeach someone for saying Biden is corrupt as hell.


8 posted on 02/06/2020 7:35:26 AM PST by cpt jack 1
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To: knighthawk

Trump is the worst dictator, ever.

Nobody’s been fired, no news outlets have been shut down, no journalists have been arrested.

I mean, come on, what kind of dictator is this?


9 posted on 02/06/2020 7:35:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk

“Yovanovitch, who was removed from her post in May 2019 amid a campaign” ... to sabotage the duly elected Presidents of the Ukraine and United States. It’s good luck for her that in the US, when you go against the king, the worst that happens is you lose your job.


10 posted on 02/06/2020 7:35:51 AM PST by Savage Rider
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“We must not allow the United States to become a country where standing up to our government is a dangerous act.”

Then she should have resigned and protested Trump’s policies publicly, instead of covertly undermining him.


11 posted on 02/06/2020 7:37:12 AM PST by o-n-money (https://www.youtube.com/llwatch?v=4HLGEARa8xk)
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Nothing cries “SWAMP” and “DEEP STATE” more than this grating nag.

Is there any doubt she was badmouthing Trump in the Ukraine?

GOOD RIDDANCE to BAD RUBBISH.


12 posted on 02/06/2020 7:37:24 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: ifinnegan

Yovanovitch needs to reread her job description which clearly states she doesn’t make policy, she carries out policies set by the President.


13 posted on 02/06/2020 7:37:30 AM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: knighthawk
Frankly, I'm more concerned that, in the United States, we now have the equivalent of the Secret Police in the Intelligence branches. I would be far happier if there was a “deep dive” into CIA and NSA, along with adding transparency to elements like the FISC. Cleaning up the FBI would also be good, expelling people like the lawyer who doctored the 302s.

Dictators can't operate in a vacuum. They need minions to help them put a heel to the necks of the common guy/gal.

14 posted on 02/06/2020 7:37:37 AM PST by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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To: knighthawk

Yovanovitch was the key the corrupt politicians (too many names here to list) were using to keep a lid on the foreign aid/Burisma scam.

Thus their reaction.


15 posted on 02/06/2020 7:37:45 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dfwgator

He’s probably waiting until he gets reelected several more times.


16 posted on 02/06/2020 7:37:56 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: knighthawk

Wasn’t she given some cushy job at a university with a large salary? Why can’t we just fire traitors like this? Why do we think that moving them to a different position with high pay and benefits is the way to go? Just total BS.

This traitor was part of the coup. Why are these types never punished? This just really messed up. ...a government “worker” is nothing more than a different way of saying welfare recipient. ..blood sucker


17 posted on 02/06/2020 7:39:17 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: knighthawk
This cretin was recalled as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine three days after Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine on April 21, 2019.

Joe Biden launched his pathetic presidential campaign ONE DAY after Yovanovich was recalled.

And now this globalist operative is polluting the Washington Post with her drivel.

This ain't all a coincidence, folks.

18 posted on 02/06/2020 7:40:09 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: knighthawk

another disgruntled person whose tender little feelings were hurt by the bad orange man. Boo-hoo Marie. She should be glad he fired her, now she will get her 15 minutes of fame, make some money, win praise and fawning favor from celebrities. No one ever heard of her before.


19 posted on 02/06/2020 7:41:00 AM PST by euram
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"Ex-Ukraine ambassador sounds off after Trump acquittal"

Yeah, with the help of the Fox News hags. Yovanovitch needs to learn to iron shirts.

20 posted on 02/06/2020 7:42:28 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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