Marie Yovanovitch, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told lawmakers behind closed doors Friday that she was recalled earlier this year after “unfounded and false claims” against her, as well as continued pressure from President Trump on the State Department to remove her -- as she denied being “disloyal” to the president.
“Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the President, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives,” she said in a scathing account of the way she was removed from her post.
The Democrats insisted on holding the impeachment hearing in secret, while selectively leaking the former envoy's bitter denunciation of Trump.
Though the fight over her continued tenure was typical of Washington infighting of the type that both Democrats and Republicans engage in, it is being presented as somehow adding fuel to the impeachment drive. That drive is still being conducted in secret by House Democrats. Democrats and the press for three years "used a fog of facts and speculation to lull America into forgetting there was never a shred of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion," Kimberley A. Strassel reminds us.
Similarly, the Wall Street Journal columnist wrote, Democrats "flooded the zone" with scattershot claims in their campaign against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. "Republicans might bear these tactics in mind as they confront the left’s new impeachment push."
The current impeachment has "descended into the weeds" of process and people. "This is unsurprising given House Democrats’ decision to keep hidden the central doings of their impeachment inquiry, and the media’s need to fill a void."
Strassel charges that has "responded by seeking to weave dozens of obscure Ukrainian and U.S. names into a crazy-quilt of names" typical American has no time to keep track of," which, she says, promotes the aim of the game: "The goal is to cover the Trump administration in ugly."
Republican are irritated at the "highly irregular manner" in which these allegations are unfolding. So, she says, they are highlighting the anonymous whistleblower, his motives and methods. They have pointed out the whistleblower’s admission that his information was secondhand. "They’re drilling into whether he was biased on behalf of a current Democratic presidential candidate" -- believed to be Joe Biden. "They are (correctly) pointing out that the whistleblower has no legal right to anonymity."
Please see FoxNews.com for more details and the Wall Street Journal for Strassel's full column.
“Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the President, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives,” she said in a scathing account of the way she was removed from her post.
The Democrats insisted on holding the impeachment hearing in secret, while selectively leaking the former envoy's bitter denunciation of Trump.
Though the fight over her continued tenure was typical of Washington infighting of the type that both Democrats and Republicans engage in, it is being presented as somehow adding fuel to the impeachment drive. That drive is still being conducted in secret by House Democrats. Democrats and the press for three years "used a fog of facts and speculation to lull America into forgetting there was never a shred of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion," Kimberley A. Strassel reminds us.
Similarly, the Wall Street Journal columnist wrote, Democrats "flooded the zone" with scattershot claims in their campaign against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. "Republicans might bear these tactics in mind as they confront the left’s new impeachment push."
The current impeachment has "descended into the weeds" of process and people. "This is unsurprising given House Democrats’ decision to keep hidden the central doings of their impeachment inquiry, and the media’s need to fill a void."
Strassel charges that has "responded by seeking to weave dozens of obscure Ukrainian and U.S. names into a crazy-quilt of names" typical American has no time to keep track of," which, she says, promotes the aim of the game: "The goal is to cover the Trump administration in ugly."
Republican are irritated at the "highly irregular manner" in which these allegations are unfolding. So, she says, they are highlighting the anonymous whistleblower, his motives and methods. They have pointed out the whistleblower’s admission that his information was secondhand. "They’re drilling into whether he was biased on behalf of a current Democratic presidential candidate" -- believed to be Joe Biden. "They are (correctly) pointing out that the whistleblower has no legal right to anonymity."
Please see FoxNews.com for more details and the Wall Street Journal for Strassel's full column.
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