Intel Cmte Member Says Yovanovitch Was ‘Overcome With Emotion’ During Testimony

U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that former ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch “became overcome with emotion” and had to step out of her deposition several times on Friday.

According to the Hill, Maloney added that Yovanovitch was fired for being “a thorn in the side” of President Donald Trump and his cronies’ Ukrainian pressure campaign.

Yovanovitch declined to answer questions after the nearly 10-hour session.

She was removed from her post by Trump after prodding by Rudy Giuliani, who turned on her for blocking his attempts to manufacture dirt on the Bidens.

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  1. Of course she was! Can you imagine devoting your whole life to patriotically serving your country, and doing an excellent job of it in the foreign service. You are an ambassador to a country working to reduce corruption, which, as she so elegantly wrote, was beneficial to both Ukraine and the United States. And some demented mafiosi arrive from the United States and not only undermine everything you’ve done, but manage to get you fired at the behest of the very corrupt forces in the Ukraine you are working against? Talk about getting stabbed in the back.

  2. She was removed from her post by Trump after prodding by Rudy Giuliani, who turned on her for blocking his attempts to manufacture dirt on the Bidens.

    They learned less than nothing from having to go through the SCO investigation.

  3. Patriot.

    I’da pissed my pants if I’d been her.

  4. Yovanovitch may be the precursor to others getting the nerve to do what’s right – it took guts and patriotism to put herself in this position. I hope the dam bursts now that she’s begun the process, because that’s the only way to drain the swamp Trump has created.

  5. Overcome with emotion…

    And yet she stayed because she believed the story had to be told.

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