A standing ovation for Marie Yovanovitch from the hearing audience, and an embarrassed silence from the president’s defenders.
On Friday, Republican defenders of President Donald Trump had an apparent plan to address the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, before the House Intelligence Committee in its impeachment inquiry.
With that, the subject turned from the president’s official authority to his actual behavior. Republicans would have to explain not merely why Trump had decided to fire the smart, tough, exemplary ambassador, but why the president was still trashing her. They did not have an answer. Again, none of the president’s defenders seemed willing to go after Yovanovitch personally in the way the president they’re defending has. During the morning’s first break, before Trump sent out his tweet, one of the president’s fiercest advocates, Rep. Mark Meadows, expressed to reporters his own admiration for how Yovanovitch performed in her previous deposition. “I’m not here to criticize her,” Meadows said.
“I didn’t know what to think, but I was very concerned,” Yovanovitch testified. “It didn’t sound good.”
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