Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who accused the Trump administration of a 'smear' campaign against her, has retired from the foreign service, NPR has learned.
Yovanovitch testified that the State Department said she was being recalled overA federal indictment, unsealed in October, alleges that Giuliani associates Parnas and Fruman met with a congressman with the aim of removing Yovanovitch from her post. According to the documents, the two committed to raising $20,000 for the unnamed congressman.
In an interview earlier this month, Parnas said Trump pushed to fire Yovanovitch four or five times. Parnas also handed over text messages to Congress suggesting that Robert Hyde, a retired Marine running for Congress as a Republican in Connecticut, had the ambassador under surveillance in Kyiv.Her ouster has become a key topic in the president's impeachment and Senate trial.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has disputed that there were efforts by Trump or Giuliani to circumvent established diplomatic channels in favor of a shadow foreign policy. "The Ukraine policy has been run from the Department of State for the entire time that I have been here, and our policy was very clear," Pompeo told NPR last week.
When pressed about criticism that he did not do enough to defend members of his staff, the secretary responded:"I've defended every single person on this team. ... I've done what's right for every single person on this team."
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