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Saturday, November 09, 2019

Impeachment Witness Marie Yovanovitch Caught in Apparent Lying Under Oath

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was fired by President Donald Trump in May, misled lawmakers in her testimony she gave as part of House Democrats’ impeachment probe, according to a report.

Yovanovitch testified behind closed doors on October 11 that in mid-August, a Democrat House Foreign Affairs Committee staffer had reached out to her on her personal email with a request to come and talk to the committee about the circumstances of her departure.

She claimed that she received the email and alerted the State Department.

“So she emailed me. I alerted the State Department and, you know, asked them to handle the correspondence. And she emailed me again and said, you know, who should I be in touch with?” she said.

“It wasn’t clear to me whether it was going to be whether this was a discussion with her, whether this was a discussion with other staffers, whether it was a deposition. I mean, it just didn’t get that far, because I transferred that information to the State Department lawyers,” she said.

When asked specifically what the staffer wanted to talk about, she said, “I think I think it was the circumstances of my departure, or maybe she just kept it more general and said to catch up, but I understood it as that.”

Yovanovitch said she knew the staffer, who was a former State Department official who worked at the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson got a hold of the staffer’s email to Yovanovitch — and her reply.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...


All Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President. Some have a personal tie to the President; others are long serving State Dept. careerists. She was a careerist holdover from Obama.

It's now quite clear she put her policy and personal political preferences above what the course of action or inaction she was directed to follow.

Only real question: Why was she permitted to remain there, and why did it take so long to remove her?

Anonymous said...

The Deep State is Imploding daily...Trust the Plan