I am so proud of our diplomatic corps and today we hear from a lady.

I am very much looking forward to hear her speak today. 33 years a professional. Invaluable. Yet, she is treated as a problem and removed from her post. If there was an extensive danger to Ambassador Yovanovitch, she should have been provided greater security, bodyguards and an intelligence detail to get to the bottom of the issue. By removing her to the USA, Donald J. Trump surrendered to the terrorists. Russian probably if they exist at all.

November 14, 2019
by Rosalind S. Helderman

In February, (click here) the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine — a 33-year career diplomat who had served presidents of both parties — received a blunt warning.

“Watch your back,” Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch said she was told by Ukraine’s interior minister.

The Ukrainian official relayed that a pair of Florida businessmen and a Kyiv prosecutor with whom Yovanovitch had clashed were working to oust her from the post she had held since 2016, she later told House investigators.

The trio had a powerful ally, he added: President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.

“I thought it was exceedingly strange,” Yovanovitch said, according to a transcript of her closed-door testimony last month....