Yesterday, Fiona Hill, President Trump’s former Russia advisor, used her own testimony to sing former U.S ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's praises.
reported earlier this month that she was recalled from Kiev after months of complaints by Giuliani that she'd been “undermining him abroad and obstructing efforts to persuade” Ukrainian leaders to investigate Biden.
Trump, in a July 25 phone call with his counterpart in Ukraine, told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Yovanovitch was "bad news," according to a partial transcript released by the White House. Neither Giuliani nor Trump has publicly specified their objections to her.Yovanovitch said in her statement Friday that she was abruptly told this spring to depart Ukraine "on the next plane.
Democrats leading the investigation said they subpoenaed Yovanovitch on Friday morning after learning late Thursday that the State Department had directed her not to appear. Trump has forbidden all government employees to cooperate; Yovanovitch remains employed by the State Department and is doing a fellowship at Georgetown University.
The House committees investigating Trump have ramped up their efforts to bring in people familiar with the Ukraine actions by Trump and Giuliani. Following Hill’s testimony on Monday, Gordon Sondland, Trump's hand-picked ambassador to the European Union, is poised to appear on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
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