Marie Yovanovich was the US ambassador to Ukraine during the end of the Obama years and the start of the Trump years. She testified in the secret investigation regarding impeachment that was conducted by the Democrats. At the time, the media was filled with all sorts of innuendo and claims about how devastating her testimony was to the President. Well today the transcript of that testimony was finally released. Ambassador Yovanovich starts by announcing that she was not yet present in Ukraine at the time that Joe Biden got the state prosecutor fired. She knows nothing about whether or not Biden used his position as Vice President and the threat to cut off US aid to Ukraine in order to protect his son Hunter Biden and Hunter's employer Burisma. Yovanovich only arrived in Kiev after all that had happened. Yovanovich also was removed as ambassador in Ukraine months before the hold was placed upon aid to Ukraine in 2019 and many months prior to the conversation between President Trump and the Ukrainian president in late July 2019. That conversation is at the center of the entire impeachment inquiry.
Think about this. The ambassador has no personal knowledge about any of the events that are the subject of the impeachment inquiry. She has nothing to add as a witness.
Her deposition was mostly about her removal as ambassador in early 2019. Yovanovich is obviously bitter that she was removed after being told that the president had lost confidence in her. Still, while she clearly doesn't like President Trump and she criticizes foreign policy moves he has made regarding Ukraine, that dislike and disagreement cannot be the basis for impeachment. In short, Yovanovich has really nothing to say of importance.
So what that makes clear is that all those breathless articles in the media about the importance of the Yovanovich testimony were nothing more than propaganda leaked by the Democrats to try to strengthen their non-existent factual base for impeachment. A clearer way to say this would be to call all those stories BS.
Think about this. The ambassador has no personal knowledge about any of the events that are the subject of the impeachment inquiry. She has nothing to add as a witness.
Her deposition was mostly about her removal as ambassador in early 2019. Yovanovich is obviously bitter that she was removed after being told that the president had lost confidence in her. Still, while she clearly doesn't like President Trump and she criticizes foreign policy moves he has made regarding Ukraine, that dislike and disagreement cannot be the basis for impeachment. In short, Yovanovich has really nothing to say of importance.
So what that makes clear is that all those breathless articles in the media about the importance of the Yovanovich testimony were nothing more than propaganda leaked by the Democrats to try to strengthen their non-existent factual base for impeachment. A clearer way to say this would be to call all those stories BS.
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