Trump impeachment investigation transcripts reveal when Marie Yovanovitch, the now-dismissed envoy, voiced concerns about US actions in Ukraine, the advice she got was: tweet support for US President Trump
In this October 11, 2019 file photo, former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testifying before congressional lawmakers.
In the months that followed, she began to understand Giuliani's work outside official diplomatic channels with Yuriy Lutsenko, who at the time was Ukraine's prosecutor-general. "He said 'you know, you need to go big or go home'," she recalled. "'You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the president."At the time, some conservatives were saying that Yovanovitch had been badmouthing Trump in Ukraine, which she emphatically denied. "That allegation is false," she testified.The ambassador relayed being told that Trump may have joined a January 2018 phone call with Giuliani, Lutsenko and others.
On that call, Trump called Yovanovitch "bad news" and said she was "going to go through some things".McKinley, the former top aide to Pompeo, detailed his frustration with Yovanovitch's ouster and his concerns about the effect that it could have on morale in the department. He said the silence from top leaders was "puzzling and baffling".
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