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11 Oct 2019, 6:57 pm

From BBC:

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"Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president," Ms Yovanovitch said in a prepared statement, "I was nevertheless incredulous that the US government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives."

"Equally fictitious is the notion that I am disloyal to President Trump," Ms Yovanovitch said. "I have heard the allegation in the media that I supposedly told the embassy team to ignore the president's orders 'since he was going to be impeached.' That allegation is false."

In her prepared remarks, the 33-year veteran of the foreign service and three-time ambassador delivered a blistering rebuke to a US State Department "attacked and hollowed from within" where "private interests circumvent professional diplomats for their own gain, not the public good".

She warned of the harm that will come to the US when "bad actors" realise "how easy it is to use fiction and innuendo to manipulate our system".

Ms Yovanovitch said she had never met or spoken with Hunter Biden and that Joe Biden had never raised with her the subject of his son or the Ukrainian gas firm that employed him.

She also said she learned that Mr Trump had called for her ousting since 2018 despite Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan telling her she had done nothing wrong.

"He said that the president had lost confidence in me and no longer wished me to serve as his ambassador. He added that there had been a concerted campaign against me," Ms Yovanovitch said.

A Barack Obama-appointee, Ms Yovanovitch was confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate and served as US ambassador to Ukraine from August 2016 until last May.

The whistleblower complaint noted her surprise dismissal was a red flag for some officials.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50018043

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11 Oct 2019, 7:43 pm

Lies are fun to listen to.

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11 Oct 2019, 9:36 pm

We concocted enough falsehoods to expel our enemy and put one of our own in his place.

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13 Oct 2019, 4:03 pm

Shame the only WP real left have either been banned or have said they are leaving.

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13 Oct 2019, 10:36 pm

No, we're still here. Just because we're Anti-Trump hardly makes us illegitimate.

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14 Oct 2019, 12:55 am

Nope. People on the left don't make excuses for mass murder. You're a 'liberal'.

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14 Oct 2019, 12:59 am

JohnPowell wrote:

Nope. People on the left don't make excuses for mass murder. You're a 'liberal'.

Like you're making excuses for the slaughter of the Kurds?

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14 Oct 2019, 1:06 am

Well done, you admit that I'm correct about you. I'm not left wing. Assad is now going to give them protection.

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14 Oct 2019, 1:14 am

JohnPowell wrote:

Well done, you admit that I'm correct about you. I'm not left wing. Assad is now going to give them protection.

I recall how you thought the Kurds deserved everything done to them.
No, I have no illusions about you being anything but a right wing nationalist.

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14 Oct 2019, 1:51 am

You don't know anything about me. The Kurds aren't helpless children they have illegally annexed land by force and mass murderered Christians.

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14 Oct 2019, 1:57 am

JohnPowell wrote:

You don't know anything about me. The Kurds aren't helpless children they have illegally annexed land by force and mass murderered Christians.

I seem to remember that the Kurds were killing ISIS for us. Sure, Christians are being murdered in Syria, but I'd look at ISIS first long before I looked at the Kurds.
And right there! You are selective about who you feel sympathy for!
I know you jumped on the BREXIT wagon, which is a right wing nationalist boondoggle. You want to keep refugees out of your country, then hide behind platitudes about stopping the problems causing refugees. You just don't provide answers about how to help those refugees in the meantime.

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