Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, Laura Cooper, and Pamela Karlan have emerged as the standouts for their powerful testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
There are a wide array of players involved in the dramatic and historic impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who's been in public service for over three decades and is widely respected in the State Department, was recalled as the US ambassador to Ukraine in May after becoming the target of a smear campaign led by President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. "Working together, they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a US ambassador," Yovanovitch said.
Trump referred to Yovanovitch as"bad news" in the July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to a whistleblower complaint from a US intelligence official. The US president added that Yovanovitch was"going to go through some things." Yovanovitch, who over her career has spent years on overseas assignments as a foreign service officer, was asked about Trump's tweet in real-time during the hearing, and she said it was"very intimidating."Yovanovitch in her testimony also decried State Department leadership for not doing more to stop US foreign policy from being hijacked. She said department leadership did not do enough"to push back as foreign and corrupt interests apparently hijacked our Ukraine policy.
But she was unequivocal on the subject of election interference and forcefully rebuked GOP lawmakers who pushed a bogus conspiracy theory that Ukraine — not Russia — interfered in the 2016 US presidential election. Hill emphasized that this is Russian propaganda, and that perpetuating it bolsters the Kremlin's efforts to contaminate US politics and divide Americans.
The former NSC official, who also served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council from 2006 to 2009, implored the lawmakers involved in the impeachment inquiry to"not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests." This came after another impeachment witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, was accused of dual loyalty to Ukraine. Vindman came to the US when he was a child as a refugee from Ukraine when it was still part of the Soviet Union.
This came as Hill testified about confronting Gordon Sondland, Trump's hand-picked US ambassador to the EU, about his circumventing interagency processes for conducting diplomacy with Ukraine, which is not in EU. Hill is among the top experts in the country on Russia and Eastern Europe, and was concerned that the NSC was being left in the dark.
This strikes at the heart of one of the central questions of the impeachment inquiry: Did Trump condition roughly $400 million in congressionally-approved military aid on Zelensky publicly announcing the launch of investigations into his political rivals? Cooper also said:"On July 25th a member of my staff got a question from a Ukraine embassy contact asking what was going on with Ukraine security assistance."Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor, stole the show in the House Judiciary Committee's first public impeachment hearing as she made an impassioned, historically-grounded case for why she feels Trump should be impeached.
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