The former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, testified behind closed doors Friday as part of the Democratic-run impeachment inquiry, giving critical information about her time in Ukraine and abrupt removal earlier this year.
In a 10-page statement obtained by The New York Times and The Washington Post, Yovanovitch defended her tenure and decried the "concerted campaign" to recall her from Ukraine, which she said is tied directly to President Donald Trump. Yovanovitch also rebuked the two associates of Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani who were arrested this week on campaign finance charges that were tied to an effort to get her removed.
The impeachment inquiry is focused on Trump's dealings with Ukraine, which include his effort to pressure the new government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the temporary holdup of critical US military aid, and Yovanovitch's surprising removal from her diplomatic post.
#CNN #News
This is what duty looks like , risking her job and career to tell the truth . Brave lady .
@John :3 Lol… Johnny, you drink to much son! Your mother and I are concerned about you! You living in denial son! Wow hurt you Johnny??? Who was he? What did he do to you son?
That’s the thing. What profits a man to gain the whole world, yet lose their soul?
@Bridin84 Biden, TRUMP owns 2020!!!
Tick tick tick… time to go to jail Orangeman.
James Eslick Funny, coming a sheepboy believing tRump is a so-called chosen one. FOOL!
@DAYBROK3 “republican electoral college” Dumbass…nuff said.
DAYBROK3 It’s a United States Constitution Electoral College! Are you seriously this dumb? Sheesh! No wonder CNN/MSNBC can stay in business with your kind of ignorance
chasingstatuszx10R Nixon is a choir boy compared to Trump.
Marie defies nothing…she stands up for Truth and Justice!
It seems Democrats didn’t get any dirt on Trump from today’s testimony. By the way here’s the reason Rudy Giuliani got her fired – https://youtu.be/ztRF6h_xOz4?t=525
Absolutely right Anthony.👍🌼
A true.protector of America. We need everyone to follow her lead.COUNTRY 1ST.
@wardamn3agle that’s what your going with ? I didn’t know who the 2 guys sitting with Rudy were either until their arrest but here we are
I note the women summoned have voluntarily appeared while the men cower behind the State Department no-no.
You are an idiot. The woman appeared voluntarily because she was an Obama hold over who was spying on Trump over Ukraine and Trump got rid of her BECAUSE THAT’S HIS FUCKING RIGHT TO DO!!!!
There is no fucking crime here you moron.
This IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY is a sham process that lacks Due Process and you would not be for ANY Republican doing this to Obama or ANY Democrat for that matter.
An Impeachment Inquiry MUST go up for a vote and the Democrats don’t want it to go up for a vote because then they either lose from the GOP getting rights to ask questions OR they lose if they vote doesn’t pass.
Without a vote they get to keep pretending all the way up until the 2020 election to keep negative press coverage on Trump for the entire 4 years.
This is NOT the way things happen in the United States and the left is proving they are not Americans.
JB I would say strong and intelligent women. Now the weak one’s fall all over him right until they spend one night with him
fool. shes actually a corrupt artisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american. greetings from europe
Trump will undoubtedly blame all of this on Rudy Giuliani!!! He barely knew him. 😂🤦🏻♀️🤮
funny how everyone around trump is guilty… but he is a boy scout.
Just wait until Moscow mitch and bootlick lindsay – and their backup enablers – FLIP ON TRUMP. Then you’d better take cover!
And you know they will – they are opportunists who want to keep their phony baloney jobs, and trump is turning into POISON.
@oldrrocr: Funny how everybody around the Clinton’s and Obama are gulity, dead or corrupt. Wait till the Barr reports come out
Funny how TRUMP is the POTUS… and you’re trying to point _somewhere else_ while all the of his corruption visibly floats to the surface.
You must be a trumptard.
If rudy was able to “persuade” trump that easily…imagine what putin, turkey and MBS has done/gotten away with
@steven pursley only woman who know their place, right?
STOP IT! You’re making the GOP rationally think for themselves. It’s too hard! 😆
@some guy: Never met a smart liberal women that wasn’t a drama queen. Just look a congress
this woman tried to have the hunter biden case dropped. Clintons made billions in ukraine under her ambassadorship . you fools believe everything fed to u. shes actually a corrupt partisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american and RACIST against native born ukrainians. greetings from europe
@steven pursley I have a feeling meeting woman isn’t your strong suit.
_New Fox News Poll, MAGAsuckers:_
*Republican support for impeachment UP 13% since three days ago.*
@Nicolas Kollushnikopf Russian bot not even hiding his identity. Nice!👍🏽
Jesus Says 😀😃😄😁😆
Jesus, Jesus, LOL
@DDKaraokeOutlaw maybe it’s because they lie, and he knows it, but in reality he has already won the 2020 no poll matters anymore.
Yes those same polls said Hillary was going to win in 2016 Anus Breath.
She ain’t no silly evangelical
This woman is a professional
@Kevin K McKenzie the copy & paste ruskie bot strikes again.
@Nicolas Kollushnikopf NICOLAS NICOLAS NICOLAS THE NEW YORK TIMES PUT OUT A STORY LATE LAST NIGHT SAYIN’ THAT RUDY GIULIANI IS UNDER INVESTIGATION NOW & GUESS WHAT=IT’S BY THE SDNY, THE SAME OFFICE THAT HE USED TO WORK FOR WHEN HIM & ROBERT MUELLER WENT AFTER THE MAFIA HERE IN NEW 🗽YORK 🌉🌉CITY🗽TOO=OOOPS, HE’LL BE THROWN TO THE WOLVES BY NEXT WEEK BECAUSE THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT COURT OF NEW YORK IS THE TOUGHEST & SCARIEST FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE AMERICA & THE 🌎 WORLD & THEY HAVE A 97% CONVICTION RATE TOO BCUZ THEY DON’T INVESTIGATE ANYONE THAT THEY DON’T ALREADY KNOW IS GUILTY JUST ASK *THE TEFLON DON JOHN GOTTI & THE MAFIA*!! JOHN GOTTI WUZ THE BOSS OF ALL BOSSES IN AMERICA TOO & WOULD HAVE BEAT THEM UNTIL HIS RIGHT HAND MAN SAMMY “THE BULL” GRAVANO SNITCHED ON HIM BUT I GUESS THEY THREW HIM A GOOD DEAL SINCE THEY DID KILL ABOUT 19 PEOPLE TOGETHER PERSONALLY SO I KNOW THEY’LL BREAK RUDY SINCE HE’S ALREADY DRYSNITCHIN’ ON HISSELF ANYWAY & TRUMP TOO & DON’T EVEN KNOW IT!!🆗✊😎✌😂😂😂😂😂
shes actually a corrupt artisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff
Finally, a child in the crowd blurts out that the emperor is wearing nothing at all and the cry is then taken up by others. The emperor realizes the assertion is true but continues the procession.
Kurt You haven’t got no idea about anything.
Kurt Beck You’re being suckered by CNN again. Here is the truth if you really want to know.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/10/05/recalled-u-s-ambassador-prevented-ukraine-from-giving-info-on-dems-2016-activities-to-barr/
Kurt Are you trying to be a wise sage, because you are failing miserably
Bye bye Rudy…
Rudy isn’t going anywhere. He’s got ever right to hear the liberals lies. Just like Schiff saying he’s got tons of evidence and reading the Ukraine phone conscript. This is the real world not made up fabrication by your desperate party
@James Timlin
Right on so true!!
@anewhope tosee So wrong.. This is real life not politics in Washington.. Rudy won’t be tossing Trump salad any more bro.. The Russian Candidate is coming to an end for America. Froto isn’t’ coming back
@loyal Bird
Wich is a good thing right?
Another great day watching his nasty admin fall apart
A administration run like a quasi Communistic dictatorship always comes to an end
@Shoes are being reviewed It’s an economic philosophy that doesn’t work. History tells us this, and you already know this. Stop letting CNN supplant radicalism in your mind. It’s not news, it’s just a propaganda tool for the Left. Step away from it and look around. You’re being lied to.
All you Trump supporters I mean trolls are literally crazy talking about how all of this is fake and how Trump will win in 2020 with absolutely nothing to back up your claims, zero facts or info to make a case. You guys just worship Trump and your only defense is to yell “fake news” anytime more damning evidence that your savior is a corrupt terrible person. You need to come with something better than that. Trump will go down as the worst president in the history of this country and it will take years to recover from the damage he has done to the country, why you guys support the destruction of our democracy is beyond me.
Sempi10 hey-why do you think cnn is my Mecca of information? No news outlet is making me think one way or another. As you may think I am persuaded by one network or another-understand these feelings are mutual. All in all at the end of the day trump is not democratic. I’m not democrat or republican. I don’t believe in those defined party lines that were built hundred years ago. Time to change-and trump isn’t the solution.
shes actually a corrupt partisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american and RACIST against native born ukrainians. greetings from europe
We need more Patriots willing to speak out and provide hard evidence and facts.
I can’t believe it took this long. Just his tweets alone have had me wondering who his handlers were and why they haven’t given the toddler a time out from screen.
@TheBethyb00p they probably needed a trigger and someone in Congress to get a hold of such evidence and drive the House hard
Whistle-blowers, we welcome you!
#voidndas
Chronic Crypto Here is the real story about your “patriotic”. Those of us that don’t watch the Propaganda channel have known this for months.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/10/05/recalled-u-s-ambassador-prevented-ukraine-from-giving-info-on-dems-2016-activities-to-barr/
She is a truly brave woman. History will paint her as a brave and professional foreign service official.
Arya
shes actually a corrupt artisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american. greetings from europe
She has more balls than all the republicans added together
Hell yes! Those GOP invertebrates is looking for rocks to crawl under and shadows yo hide
Puhleeeeeeze
this woman tried to have the hunter biden case dropped. Clintons made billions in ukraine under her ambassadorship . you fools believe everything fed to u. shes actually a corrupt partisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american and RACIST against native born ukrainians. greetings from europe
So good to see real, actual patriots stepping up against a tyrant wannabe.
Amen!
shes actually a corrupt partisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american and RACIST against native born ukrainians. greetings from europe
This is a person doing her job, not like those republicans cowards that throw their dignities out of the window to keep their jobs.
@MistieBlue Dems are world biggest cry baby cowards, cant accept they got defeated by smarter people 2016 Trump
They really not worried about no job the want to keep this world the kkk
@angela lewisTrump has been head of KKK for the last 20yrs and head of the Black Panthers too
@Rebecca Sorensen I just tell them if abortion is a sin, God will sort out the sinner, but until fetuses get a lobby let’s leave politics to the born.
shes actually a corrupt artisan hack that was expelled from the ukrain by the UKRAINIANS for abusing members of staff. the abuse regular Ukrainians experienced were shocking.she is an arrogant elitist liberal american. greetings from europe
This is the sound of music to rational thinking people.
@Terry Hawkins all presidents are racist
Good music indeed.
@J. H you’re really weird if you believe Democrats release only what they want to is somehow related to a channel reporting court rulings in this video
But however, there’s millions who still drink the kool aid.
Trump’s house of cards is starting to crumble.
A house of cards falls not crumbles.
Yovanovitch is honorable, is an adult, and is female, three reasons the dishorable adolescent misogynist fired her.
Another example- an affirmation of how everything Trump touches DIES.
Andy Griggs former Hungary president?
A stinking, undignified death…no one gets out unscathed.