In her public testimony in the House's impeachment hearing today, ex-Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch warned corrupt foreigners will try to exploit the U.S. unless diplomats are supported.
Marie"Masha" Yovanovitch, a longtime career diplomat, was serving as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine last spring when she was abruptly ordered home and told that she had lost the confidence of the president. President Donald Trump in a subsequent phone call to Ukraine’s president called her"bad news" and said"she’s going to go through some things."
He noted correctly that the new Ukrainian president"spoke unfavorably about her" in Trump’s phone call with him and that it is his absolute right to put anyone he wants in the job of ambassador – something Yovanovitch herself acknowledged in her testimony. Schiff later told reporters he thought Trump’s tactic was"witness intimidation." During the hearing, he asked Yovanovitch whether such tweets might discourage others from coming forward with allegations of wrongdoing."I mean, I can't speak to what the president is trying to do," she said."But I think the effect is to be intimidating."
According to Yovanovitch, Russian President Vladimir Putin, could have been trying to"throw off the scent" that Russia was behind election interference and create an"alternative narrative" that Ukraine was to blame. Yovanovitch added,"What I can say is that Mr. Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect -- coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine."
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