Thread by @JewhadiTM

.@RepAdamSchiff and @HouseIntel’s next hearsay “witness” is Marie Yovanovitch.

In March, 2019, a few weeks before Ukraine’s presidential election, Yovanovitch called for the firing of a prosecutor aligned with the incumbent president.

johnsolomonreports.com/the-real-ukrai…

The Geneva Convention strictly mandates that foreign diplomats “have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State” that hosts them.

Yovanovitch did give a speech on March 5, 2019 calling for Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed. You can read it here: ua.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-amb…

A senior member of Congress had in spring 2018 wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleging the ambassador had made anti-Trump comments and suggesting she be recalled. scribd.com/document/40255…

Ukrainian officials, particularly the country’s prosecutors, viewed Yovanovitch as the embodiment of an activist U.S. embassy in Kiev that ruffled feathers by meddling in internal law enforcement cases inside the country.

The U.S. embassy had pressured the Ukraine prosecutors in 2016 to drop or avoid pursuing several cases, including one involving the Soros-backed AntiCorruption Action Centre and two cases involving Ukraine officials who criticized Donald Trump and Paul Manafort.

U.S. embassy officials DID apply pressure to try to stop Ukrainian prosecutors from pursuing certain cases.

The U.S. diplomats saw no problem in their actions, believing that it served the American interest in combating Ukrainian corruption.

The Ukrainians viewed it far differently as an improper intervention in the internal affairs of their country that was forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

via @jsolomonReports