Marie Yovanovitch said Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s advice was to “go big or go home,” which he explained meant lauding Trump.
Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted from her position, is scheduled to testify Friday.
Trump has drawn criticism for tweeting early in Yovanovitch’s testimony that everywhere the career diplomat was posted “turned bad.”…
A Republican lawyer has asked former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch about efforts by Ukrainian officials to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
She noted that the U.S. intelligence community “has conclusively determined” that those who interfered in that election were in Russia.
California Rep. Devin Nunes said the details of her May ouster at Trump’s direction are a human resources issue, instead of a matter relevant to the Democrat-led investigation.
Rep. Liz Cheney said Yovanovitch “clearly is somebody who’s been a public servant to the United States for decades and I don’t think the president should have done that.”…
Yovanovitch said it was a “terrible moment” and that words fail her even now to describe it.
President Donald Trump tweeted: “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.”…
Yovanovitch said she received the call at 1 a.m. from an official who said she needed to come home right away.
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