Thread by @awprokop

Impeachment inquiry transcript of former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is posted.

Says was told in late 2018 that Rudy Giuliani and former prosecutor general Lutsenko "had plans" and they "were going to, you know, do things, including to me"

docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG…

Yovanovitch: "I couldn't imagine all of the things that have happened over the last 6 or 7 months. I just couldn't imagine it."

A senior Ukrainian official told her in February that she needed to watch her back, because "two individuals from Florida" working with Giuliani — Parnas and Fruman — wanted her out as ambassador, for business reasons

Yovanovitch was concerned by Don Jr.'s tweet criticizing her. Asked for statement of support from Pompeo, never got one.

"If you have the President's son saying, you know, we need to pull these clowns, or however he referred to me, it makes it hard to be a credible ambassador"

State Dept communicated to Yovanovitch that Pompeo wouldn't issue a statement supporting her due to concern it could be "undermined" by a Trump tweet

At some point, Yovanovitch was told that Pompeo or someone on his behalf called Sean Hannity, to ask why Hannity kept attacking her on his show

Yovanovitch got a call 1AM Ukraine time from a State official, said she had to leave right away, take the next plane to DC, for her "security" (but it didn't seem like physical threat).

Later explanation that Pompeo had tried to "protect" her from Trump, but no longer could

Later explanation for her hasty departure order:

"They were worried that if I wasn't, you know, physically out of Ukraine, that there would be, you know, some sort of public either tweet or something else from the White House."

So clearly decreed by Trump

"There was a rumor in Kyiv that during the meeting
between Mr. Mayor Giuliani and Mr. Lutsenko in January
that the President got on the line."

(When Lutsenko was peddling Burisma and 2016 dirt)

Yovanovitch: After learning that Trump said she was going to "go through some things," and about the dossier of material Giuliani circulated about her (that State's IG handed to FBI), she wondered:

"Is there an active investigation against me in the FBI"?

Giuliani blamed Yovanovitch for blocking a US tourist visa for former prosecutor general Shokin.

Yovanovitch says he would've been blocked based on his "known corrupt activities."

Adds that he lied on visa application. Said he would visit "a child," was actually gonna see Rudy

Here's more on the (unconfirmed) rumor that Trump phoned in to one of Rudy's calls with prosecutor general Lutsenko.

Here's my longer writeup of Yovanovitch's testimony — remarkably revealing of how the State Department functions (or doesn't function) under Trump vox.com/2019/11/4/2094…