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Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers she was forced to leave Kiev on “the next plane” this spring and removed from her post, with State’s No. 2 official telling her she had done nothing wrong but State was under significant pressure [by Trump] to remove her.wapo.st/2q0hkeU?tid=ss…
Yovanovitch said she was “incredulous” her superiors removed her based on “unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives” and that Giuliani's associates were financially threatened by her anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.
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MORE: At the risk of losing her job, Yovanovitch delivered a scathing indictment of the Trump admin’s conduct of foreign policy and warned that private influence and personal gain have usurped diplomats’ judgment, threatening to undermine US interests.
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Former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch: “I do not know Mr. Giuliani’s motives for attacking me.” But Giuliani's associates “may well have believed their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.”
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