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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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U.S. forces were unable to carry out a plan to transfer five dozen “high value” ISIS detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons before Trump ordered the US military to retreat from Syria and make way for a Turkish-led invasion.
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A Kurdish official also said that the ISIS flag had been raised in the countryside.
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Trump giving Turkey the green light to slaughter our Kurdish allies––which is EXACTLY what he did––has led to the liberation of imprisoned ISIS terrorists and has put the lives of US troops in danger.
Trump greenlighting Turkey's attack on northern Syria and the slaughter of our Kurdish allies has led to the end of the campaign to defeat ISIS in Syria and has given ISIS “a second lease on life.”

Trump is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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Deutsche Bank does not have Trump’s tax returns. At some point in *recent* years, they got rid of them.

A former senior bank executive, who saw the returns, said normal practice was for Deutsche to keep such materials on file.
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"After Trump took office, Deutsche shifted into damage-control mode."
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