Today, we heard from Marie Yovanovitch, who testified that while serving as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine she was abruptly terminated from her post last May, after being told she had lost the confidence of the president.
And while Yovanovitch left her post before some of the key dates in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against the president, her testimony made it clear that she felt that a smear campaign had been waged against her by Rudy Guiliani, which ultimately led to her abrupt dismissal.
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