Posted on 10/11/2019 10:34:10 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told congressional investigators on Friday that she was removed from her post earlier this year due to "a concerted campaign against me," according to a transcript of her opening statement.
The New York Times and The Washington Post both published the opening statement, which was given to three congressional committees hearing closed-door testimony from the former ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch.
Yovanovitch said that when she was recalled to Washington from Kiev, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan told her that she had "done nothing wrong and that this was not like other situations where he had recalled ambassadors for cause.”
She said Sullivan told her that President Trump “lost confidence in me and no longer wished me to serve as his ambassador” and cited “a concerted campaign against me," saying "that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018.”
Yovanovitch was removed in May, and her ouster is mentioned in the whistleblower complaint that is at the center of the House impeachment inquiry. The complaint alleges that Trump pressured Ukraine's president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden over corruption allegations and suggests that the withholding of military aid may have been used as part of the campaign. The complaint also alleges that White House officials were worried about Trump's call and sought to cover it up.
Military aid was eventually delivered to Ukraine, and Trump has denied any wrongdoing on the call.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Now if I was POTUS, anyone who even smiled at Obama(let alone brought on by the creep) would be gone day one.
In an interview, Mr. Giuliani told The Wall Street Journal that in the lead-up to Ms. Yovanovitch’s removal, he reminded the president of complaints percolating among Trump supporters that she had displayed an anti-Trump bias in private conversations. In Mr. Giuliani’s view, she also had been an obstacle to efforts to push Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden and his son Hunter.
Having known a number of these types of people, I have no doubt whatsoever she did not restrict her sentiments only to personal confidantes in her personal life.
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