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Yovanovitch Failed to Hang Trump Photo at Embassy in Ukraine, President Says
Epoch Times ^ | 11/24/2019 | Ivan Pentchoukov

Posted on 11/24/2019 7:16:17 AM PST by Eddie01

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch failed to hang a photo of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv for more than a year after Trump’s inauguration and said “bad things” about him, the president told Fox News in an interview on Nov. 22.

The White House recalled Yovanovitch from her post in Kyiv on April 24, 2019, after months of allegations in the media claiming that she did not like Trump and was undermining him. Trump’s anecdote about the portrait, if confirmed, would become the first piece of evidence to substantiate the allegations.

“This ambassador that everyone says is so wonderful she wouldn’t hang my picture in the embassy ok? She’s in charge of the embassy. She wouldn’t hang it. It took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up,” Trump said. “She said bad things about me. She wouldn’t defend me.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201904; 20190424; ambassador; coup; ukraine; yovanovitch
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To: Eddie01

Yovanobitch and every Obama appointed ambassador should have been replaced within Trump’s first month.


62 posted on 11/24/2019 9:09:56 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Starboard

They do not hire any other type. They don’t even have to filter out conservatives or Christians anymore: the universities they hire from already do that for them.


63 posted on 11/24/2019 9:12:53 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: Eddie01

I REALLY wish I could share the stories I know regarding this topic, but I’ll leave it at this.

Fact
That’s all

Believe PDJT in this matter


65 posted on 11/24/2019 9:13:41 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: SheepWhisperer

How long before Trump is accused of being Ukrainophobic?


66 posted on 11/24/2019 9:20:49 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: shelterguy

I wouldn’t doubt it. Every time I walked by Obama’s photo I had avert my eyes. Walking past Hillary several times a day would have caused brain damage.


67 posted on 11/24/2019 9:27:03 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: ncalburt

Ambassadors are either career (Foreign Service employees) or political appointees. Usually, career ambassadors tend to keep their position, at least for awhile, with a change of administrations. I don’t know about Foreign Service, but there is a tendency for lower-level political appointees to scramble to try to get Civil Service status when a new administration comes in.


68 posted on 11/24/2019 9:29:18 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: malach
This is not something Tillerson would touch. He made a severe mistake but this is juvenile. And it only seems to have happened in one embassy.

Every foreign official and visitor sees the Chain of Command at an embassy: President, Secretary of State, and Ambassador. Trust me, this is a BIG deal.

Every embassy has a protocol officer in charge of the protocol section. I would expose that person-- and then have him rat out who was behind it.

69 posted on 11/24/2019 9:30:04 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: Eddie01

Lois Lerner looking no sugar walls type

Women can get stern and masculine with age

They DO NOT HAVE TO


70 posted on 11/24/2019 9:30:56 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Eddie01

Yovanovitch is not Jewish but has anyone noticed how many players in this mess are

And not just on the left

Sondland
Fiona of Arc
Ukrainian president Zelensky
Nadler
Engel
Schiff
Goldman
Vindman
Soros....the black hand of euromaiden

Our side

Castor ....who laughed at Fiona Peron trying to smear with anti semitism about Soros haters ...which is ironic

Stefanik....the only Jewish republican in Congress I think..a moderate who did well

Giulianis hapless partners from Ukraine now indicted

I think it’s clear the state debt is full of leftists and some are secular Jewish and are lovers of euromaiden and hate Pooty

A certain double irony there

They hate Russia now....quite a divergence from the post Czar pre Uncle Joe era

And Fionabeth the Great smeared Soros haters as Nazis when Soros himself the Uber globalist is a major threat to the politics of a strong Jewish state and was said to have collaborated as a kid....unlike most here ...I realize he was indeed a kid then...11-14


71 posted on 11/24/2019 9:45:38 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: ncalburt
That's a bunch of crap. Fake news.
72 posted on 11/24/2019 9:48:08 AM PST by duckln
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To: malach
Sure there is undermining. But it is in private.

Not hanging to picture is in full view and people will ask questions. A conservative will make a phone call to someone. That's why I indicated it was (1) hard to believe, and (2) it's a BIG deal if this went on for a year (or even close to a year).

Between the dates of election (Nov) and taking office (Jan), the official photos are sent out to every government installation and ships at sea.

This is inexcusable and if I were Pompeo, I'd burn the forest down and salt the earth so that DoS persons remember it for generations. Then I would call for the resignations of everyone that does not have full allegiance to the President.

74 posted on 11/24/2019 10:37:10 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: Pearls Before Swine

What should we expect from the traitors in Faggy Bottoms?


75 posted on 11/24/2019 10:48:18 AM PST by attiladhun2
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To: Texas Eagle

Word play on Les Nessman of WKRP... :)


76 posted on 11/24/2019 10:54:54 AM PST by W. (Hey, beer!)
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To: W.

Ahhhh. Okay.


77 posted on 11/24/2019 10:59:09 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have noandards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks. Good speech.


78 posted on 11/24/2019 11:32:45 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Note to self, when elected President fire ever bastard from the past administration.


79 posted on 11/24/2019 11:40:41 AM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Salvavida
Having worked in no less than 7 embassies.....this is absolutely SAVAGE, and I have a hard time believing someone did not inform Main State what was going on.

You realize that the Twitter Lefties and Bluechecks are probably mocking Trump right now over bringing this up.

Whereas YOU realize that this is a very serious thing.

80 posted on 11/24/2019 12:31:26 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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