Former Ukrain ambassador testified before the Congress on Trump case
Marie Yovanovitch, who until May was a representative of that nation in the United States, said she had been pushed by the US president to support him on Twitter
The US ambassador to Ukraine until last May, Marie Yovanovitch, told congressmen investigating US President Donald Trump that the State Department pressured her to praise Trump on Twitter.
Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, left office in May after a series of attacks by the conservative US media, which denounced her alleged hostility against the US president.
During the nine hours before the congressmen who are investigating Trump as a preliminary stage to a possible political trial, Yovanovitch declared that the US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, told her that she should praise or support Trump if she wanted to keep her position. The declaration came on October 11, but it had not been published by the Capitol until Monday.
According to Yovanovitch, Trump himself pressured the State Department to achieve her dismissal although a senior body official acknowledged that she had done “nothing wrong.”
In her appearance, the former ambassador recorded her “disbelief” in the face of the fact that “the United States Government chose to dismiss her as an ambassador based on what I believe are unfounded and false accusations of people with clearly questionable reasons.”
The anonymous responsible for the complaint that launched the previous impeachment process said that the impeachment of Yovanovitch was ordered because she did not get along with the Ukrainian attorney general, Yuri Lutsenko, from whom Trump expected him to investigate the son of his rival Joe Biden to discredit his likely opponent in the 2020 presidential elections.
K. Tovar
Source: agencies
