Former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch describes the moment she read the phone call transcript from President Trump calling her 'bad news.'
USA TODAYWASHINGTON – Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified Friday to the House Intelligence Committee in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
“What is the interruption this time?” Stefanik said. “This is the fifth time you have interrupted duly elected members of Congress.” “The president’s going to defend himself,” said Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. “There’s no way that if Democrats are going to insist on tearing our country in half with this impeachment charade, that the president’s just going to sit back and allow Adam Schiff to play this game.”
Democrats, on the other hand, have cast the president’s tweets as witness intimidation, something that should lead to consequences. Yovanovitch said particularly in Ukraine, where there are"huge challenges" with corruption, Kyiv has made a lot of progress since 2014. “We take this kind of witness intimidation and obstruction of inquiry very seriously,” Schiff said in the recess.Trump attacks Yovanovitch during testimony
Democrats in the impeachment inquiry said Trump had Yovanovitch removed because she was an obstacle to his efforts to have Ukraine investigate domestic political opponents, including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.Former envoy to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch had been asked in March to extend her tour for a year, to July 2020. But she received an April 24 call notifying her she needed to return immediately.
“It’s history,” he said. “It was worth missing some sleep to see something we won’t be able to again." “If our chief representative is kneecapped, it limits our effectiveness to safeguard the vital national security interests of the United States,” Yovanovitch said. “This is especially important now, when the international landscape is more complicated and more competitive than it has been since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The conversation was mostly congratulatory, with Trump describing Zelensky's election as"fantastic" and"incredible." Schiff said Yovanovitch has spent 33 years working at the State Department, earning a reputation for fighting corruption and naming names. She had arrived in the United States after her parents fled the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, Schiff said. But Yovanovitch was recalled on May 20 and was told Trump had lost confidence in her, Schiff said.
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