Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said the State Department is 'in trouble,' with senior leaders who lack 'moral clarity' and 'policy vision,' in her first public remarks since testifying before Congress.
Yovanovitch, a fellow at Georgetown, retired this month as a career Foreign Service officer after serving as U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Ukraine. Last May, Trump removed her from her post in Kyiv after a smear campaign against her by him, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's American and Ukrainian associates, who accused her of badmouthing Trump, being corrupt and blocking investigations into Democrats.
Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, Feb. 12, 2020."It's important to allow the folks with regional expertise, experience, language skills and relationships to lead in our foreign policy," she added. When she publicly testified in November, Trump blasted her, tweeting,"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad." That attack followed his vague warning to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during their July 25 call, where he called her"bad news" and promised she was"going to go through some things."
She had a warning for diplomats, too, however, saying they"won't be effective if ... we can't figure out how to get back in at home" with political leadership -- just as her own ouster was because of Trump's distrust of her, based on disinformation about her. Instead, she urged diplomats to build a constituency back at home, by"better explain what we do and why" to the U.S. public and members of both parties in Congress.
Yovanovitch also opened up about the difficulty she had in the last year, especially after testifying.
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