Marie Yovanovitch, the former envoy to Ukraine, testified to a House of Representatives closed-door deposition that she was ousted on ‘false claims’
“She’s a brave woman,” Democratic Representative Michael Quigley said of Yovanovitch during a break in the testimony.
“Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives,” Yovanovitch said in her statement. She has worked under both Republican and Democratic administrations. A senior Republican congressional aide described her as someone widely viewed as “professional.”
The investigation could lead to the approval of articles of impeachment - or formal charges against the president - in the House. A trial on whether to remove him from office would then be held in the Senate, where Trump’s fellow Republicans who control the chamber have shown little appetite for ousting him.
Yovanovitch said the notion she had been disloyal to Trump was “fictitious” and dismissed the idea that former Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration had asked her to harm Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, will comply with a subpoena and testify on Thursday, his lawyers said, despite the White House policy against cooperation.But Sondland is not authorized to release documents the committees have sought, his lawyers said.
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