| | | | | Marie Yovanovitch explains how Trump opened the door for corruption |
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| | | President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the former ambassador to Ukraine from her post over bad-faith smears dramatically undermined U.S. efforts to fight corruption worldwide, she told Congress in a public impeachment hearing Friday morning.
Over hours of testimony, Marie Yovanovitch described how the Trump administration bought into and advanced a coordinated campaign of lies about her launched by a Ukrainian official accused of corruption, right-wing pundits and Trump’s own lawyer. Trump warned that Yovanovitch was “going to go through some things” on his now-infamous July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Even as Yovanovitch testified, Trump continued to attack the career foreign service officer who had served under every president since Ronald Reagan. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” he tweeted. The president’s live commentary led House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to interrupt the hearing and ask Yovanovitch what she thought of his tweet. “It’s very intimidating,” she said. |
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| | | | | | | | | Roger Stone, a former official for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and longtime practitioner of the political dark arts, was found guilty Friday on seven charges. |
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| | The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a stay of Rodney Reed’s execution. The decision came hours after the the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole asked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for a 120-day delay to his execution in response to a clemency application from Reed, whose lawyers says there is new evidence that could exonerate him. |
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| | Over 80 members of the House of Representatives have now called on White House senior adviser Stephen Miller to resign after leaked emails published this week showed his affinity for white nationalism. |
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