Earlier, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) opened the second public hearing in the Trump impeachment inquiry. “In her time in Kiev, Ambassador Yovanovitch was tough on corruption, too tough on corruption for some, and her principled stance made her enemies.
“These newly uncovered documents indicate Ambassador Yovanovitch made false statements under oath during the impeachment charade and this must be thoroughly investigated,” Citizens United president David Bossie told Fox News, adding that “the American people are sick and tired of the double standard.”
Removed from her post as ambassador to Ukraine, Ms. Yovanovitch said she was bereft when she came under fire from the president’s personal attorney and eldest son last spring, but was even more stunned in September when she learned that Mr. Trump himself had disparaged her in his now-famous July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president.
In the July call, according to a rough transcript released by the White House, Mr. Trump called Ms. Yovanovitch “bad news” and said that “she’s going to go through some things.” Asked her reaction when she read that, Ms. Yovanovitch said: “Shocked. Appalled.
Mr. Trump’s tweet omitted the context in which he discussed Ms. Yovanovitch with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during their July 25 phone conversation, which actually came two months after she had been recalled from Ukraine. It was Mr. Trump who first criticized Ms. Yovanovitch, calling her “bad news.” Mr. Zelensky responded that he completely agreed with Mr. Trump and pointed out “you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador.”
Removed from her post as ambassador to Ukraine, Ms. Yovanovitch said she was bereft when she came under fire from the president’s personal attorney and eldest son last spring, but was even more stunned in September when she learned that Mr. Trump himself had disparaged her in his now-famous July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president.
Trump had with Ukraine’s president in an effort to demonstrate that there was nothing untoward in that conversation.
nicholas fandos. In the call, the president brings up you Yovanovich twice. The first time. archived recording (dan goldman) President Trump says that the former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news, and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news.
Trump reinforced Yovanovitch’s narrative, railing against her on Twitter.
While lawmakers pondered impeaching Mr. Trump, a jury in a courthouse only a few hundred yards away found the president’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr. guilty of lying to the very same House Intelligence Committee.
In her time in Kiev, Ambassador Yovanovich was tough on corruption. Too tough on corruption for some. nicholas fandos. So remember that Rudy Giuliani led this smear campaign both in the media and with the president to get Yovanovich removed from her post, which she’d served in under multiple administrations.
Yovanovitch tells of 'grave concerns' about State Department leadership . Yovanovitch, who has worked at the State Department for 33 years, voiced “grave concerns” about the foreign service if foreign governments learn that they can have U.S. diplomats removed when there are disagreements.
When House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asked Yovanovitch to respond to Trump's tweet, the ambassador called the president's comment "intimidating.". The tweet drew a backlash from Democrats and some Republicans, including Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who told reporters it was "wrong.".
Later, Trump said his comments about Yovanovitch were an expression of freedom of speech, not an effort at intimidation. "I have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech just as other people do. But they've taken away the Republicans' rights," he said during a healthcare event at the White House.
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.
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.
Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican and close Trump ally, said he didn't think the controversy over the president's tweets would affect how the American people view the impeachment inquiry hearings.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., focused on the widespread knowledge of corruption in Ukraine and U.S. efforts to counter it. President Donald Trump has said he was justified in asking Ukraine to investigate for possible corruption former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of the energy company Burisma Holdings.
Yovanovitch appeared to forward the email to Kent, who then arranged a briefing for her to discuss the issues. Kent, before the briefing, wrote to colleagues the topics he hoped to discuss, which included “ [Burisma founder Mykola] Zlochevsky/Burisma - asset recovery and past crimes of the Yanu regime as they intersect U.S. corporate/individual interest.”
Meanwhile, another document appeared to be a briefing memo to prepare Yovanovitch for a meeting on Dec. 8, 2016 inside the U.S. Embassy with Burisma representative Karen Tramontano.
In September 2016, Yovanovitch received a letter from Burisma’s American lawyers, John Buretta of Cravath, Swaine and Moore law firm based in New York, alerting her that prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko’s office was dropping a corruption investigation related to Burisma without filing charges.
Marie Yovanovitch knew about Hunter Biden and Burisma. Documents show Amb. Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony left out mention of Burisma meetings, letters; insight from Fox News contributor John Solomon and Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Video. “These newly uncovered documents indicate Ambassador Yovanovitch made false statements under oath during the impeachment charade and this must be thoroughly investigated,” Citizens United president David Bossie told Fox News, adding that “the American people are sick and tired of the double standard.”.
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @BrookeSingman.
In October 2019, Ukraine’s current prosecutor general, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, said at a news conference that his office was instructed to review cases that have been closed to make sure they were fairly and thoroughly handled — including the probe into Burisma.