House impeachment investigators released the first two transcripts of their closed-door depositions, and they paint a stunning portrait of U.S. diplomats under siege from their own government
, a former top adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — show that a cadre of career, non-political officials were deeply concerned by President Donald Trump’s posture toward Ukraine, and his allies’ ultimately successful efforts to take down Yovanovitch.
When asked if anyone at the State Department tried to push back on Giuliani’s campaign against her and his shadow diplomacy efforts, which were inconsistent with U.S. policy toward Ukraine, Yovanovitch replied: “I don’t think they felt they could.” “This was to make sure that I would be treated with as much respect as possible,” Yovanovitch said of the rapid movement.Though State Department officials had been worried for months about Giuliani’s campaign to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump’s rivals, the effort didn’t set off serious alarms until a whistleblower complaint tied all of the elements together.
His concerns grew even greater after Trump released the transcript of his July 25 call with Zelensky. “In this context, frankly, to see the emerging information on the engagement of our missions to procure negative political information for domestic purposes, combined with the failure I saw in the building to provide support for our professional cadre in a particularly trying time, I think the combination was a pretty good reason to decide enough, that I had I had no longer a useful role to play,” McKinley said.
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