Smear campaigns. Crooked prosecutors. Presidential intimidation. What you need to know from Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s impeachment testimony
In a six-hour hearing on Friday, Yovanovitch described in a clear, sober manner how her work in Ukraine met an abrupt and disturbing end. The only witness at the second public impeachment hearing, she spoke about the earliest indications that Giuliani and his cronies were running a shadow foreign policy as well as the damage inflicted on the morale of American diplomats and on the State Department as an institution.
What’s more, she added, she feared that an ambassador committed to rooting out corruption being unceremoniously removed from her post as a result of a shadow campaign by Giuliani and others sent a terrible signal to the rest of the world. “If people see that I, who have been promoting our policies on anti-corruption … if they can undermine me and get me pulled out of Ukraine, what does that mean for our policy?” she asked.
Having spent most of her career at the State Department, Yovanovitch made a compelling case for why Giuliani’s disinformation campaign against her and Trump’s subsequent decision to remove her as ambassador demoralized America’s diplomatic corps.
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