Opinion: Trump helps House Democrats — and weakens his allies — by trash-tweeting Yovanovitch (via latimesopinion)
would have played out had President Trump not trash-tweeted the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine during the hearing.
My guess is that Republicans would still have been unable to counter her poised account of how she was ousted because of a smear campaign instigated by Trump’s lawyer and television pitchman Rudolph W. Giuliani. They still would have had to contend with the fact that there is no innocuous explanation for the way this experienced diplomat was treated. Certainly, as she made clear, she wasn’t a dissenter from the Trump administration’s official policy of shoring up Ukraine’s defenses against Russian aggression and infiltration.
The Republicans would have harped, as they did anyway, on the trivial truth that — as Yovanovitch conceded — the president has the right to recall and replace any ambassador.
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