Ex-U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was warned to leave Ukraine on 'next flight' over threats to her safety
Prior to being fired, Yovanovitch asked Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, for advice on how to handle these attacks, Sondland told her she needed to kiss Trump’s ring in the form of a laudatory tweet. “He said, ‘You need to go big or go home,'” she testified. “You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the President, and that all these are lies and everything else.
McKinley’s deposition, while much shorter than Yovanovitch’s, captures how extraordinary Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate the Bidens was and how much it rattled career foreign service officers like McKinley. “In 37 years in the Foreign Service and different parts of the globe and working on many controversial issues, working 10 years back in Washington, I had never seen that,” McKinley said.
McKinley said his concerns spiked when he first read the transcript of President Trump’s fateful July 25th phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. It was on that call, of course, that Trump asked for a “favor”: that the Ukrainians investigate Joe and Hunter Biden as well as a conspiracy theory about Ukraine meddling in the 2016 presidential election. McKinley grew angry when Trump during that same call referred to the U.S.
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