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Marie Yovanovitch - Wikipedia
While ambassador to Ukraine,
Yovanovitch was subjected to a conspiracy-driven smear campaign, amplified by President Donald Trump and his allies.[5] In May 2019, Trump abruptly recalled Yovanovitch from her post[6] following claims by Trump surrogates[7] that she was undermining Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival, former vice president and 2020 U.S. presidential election candidate Joe Biden.
Yovanovitch's removal preceded a July 2019 phone call by Trump in which he attempted to pressure Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden.[8] Following a whistleblower complaint about the phone call and attempts to cover it up, an impeachment inquiry against Trump was initiated by the House of Representatives. Yovanovitch testified in several House committee depositions in the inquiry
Anti-corruption work and other activities
Yovanovitch was respected within the national security community for her efforts to encourage Ukraine to tackle corruption,[27] and during her tenure had sought to strengthen the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which had been created to bolster efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine; these efforts earned Yovanovitch some enemies within the country.[28] In a March 2019 speech to the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Yovanovitch said that the Ukrainian government was not making sufficient progress to combat corruption, saying: "It is increasingly clear that Ukraine's once-in-a-generation opportunity for change has not yet resulted in the anti-corruption or rule of law reforms that Ukrainians expect or deserve."[29]
Smear campaign against Yovanovitch and ouster
Main article: Trump–Ukraine scandal
As U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch was the target of a conspiracy-driven smear campaign.[5][30][31] Allegations against her were then made by Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, as well as conservative commentator John Solomon of The Hill and Ukraine's then-top prosecutor, Yuri Lutsenko, who accused her of being part of a conspiracy involving anti-corruption probes in Ukraine and efforts by the Trump administration to investigate ties between Ukrainian officials and the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.[3][32][33] Lutsenko, who has been accused by Ukrainian civil society organizations of corruption,[29] claimed that Yovanovitch, an Obama administration appointee, had interfered in Ukraine politics, had given him a "do-not-prosecute" list and was interfering in his ability to combat corruption in Ukraine.[28][32] [B
]The U.S. State Department said that Lutsenko's allegations against Yovanovitch were "an outright fabrication"[32] and indicated that they were a "classic disinformation campaign."[3[/B]
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It was Ukraine that wanted Marie Yovanovitch gone. Yuri Lutsenko, Ukraine's prosecutor general, wanted Yovanovitch gone. As Parnas explained, Ukraine is a totally corrupt country. Everything is gained through bribery, whether it's an extra piece of meat at the butcher or a political appointment in their government, nothing is accomplished without paying off someone. There's a quid-pro-quo connected with every action their government takes and every political appointment. Lutsenko wanted Yovanovich gone because she was fighting the corruption deep inside the Ukraine government.
Lev Parnas is a firsthand witness and has documents to prove this because it was he, among others like Giuliani, that Lutsenko voiced his opposition to Marie Yovanovitch. Yuri Lutsenko insisted she be removed
before he would give any assistance to Trump in investigating the Bidens. Yes, it was a quid pro quo started by Ukraine! You get rid of Yovanovitch and we'll help you out getting dirt on the Bidens.