President Donald Trump on Friday went after former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, saying that people were going easy on her because she’s a woman and asserting that she “was not an angel”.
“I said, ‘Why are you being so kind?’ ‘Well, sir, she’s a woman. We have to be nice’,” Trump said. “She’s very tough. I heard bad things.”
Trump, in a phone call during “Fox & Friends,” said that Yovanovitch would not put up his portrait in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and dismissively described her as “an Obama person,” questioning why his allies hadn’t been tougher on her before, suggesting it was related to her gender, The Hill wrote.
“This was not an angel, this woman, OK?” Trump said during the interview.
“And there were a lot of things that she did that I didn’t like, and we’ll talk about that at some point, but I just want to let you know that this was not a baby that we’re dealing with,” he added.
Yovanovitch testified before the House Intelligence Committee last week in the impeachment inquiry into Trump that is largely centered around his conduct in Ukraine. She described what she called a smear campaign by the President’s allies, including his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, to paint her as anti-Trump and get her out of the job.
A rough transcript of Trump’s phone call with Zelensky and the whistleblower complaint, which alleged that Trump was soliciting interference in the 2020 presidential election, have been released publicly. The whistleblower did not witness Trump’s call with Zelensky first hand, but the person’s description of the call in the complaint matched up closely with the rough transcript of the conversation released by the White House.
House Democrats heard from a dozen witnesses in connection with the impeachment inquiry this week. The House is expected to draft and then vote on articles of impeachment by the end of next year. Trump on Thursday urged Republicans to keep fighting for him in the House, suggesting they would soon be on “our turf” when a prospective trial moves to the GOP-controlled Senate.
“Keep fighting tough, Republicans, you are dealing with human scum who have taken Due Process and all of the Republican Party’s rights away from us during the most unfair hearings in American History,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning.
“But we are winning big, and they will soon be on our turf,” the President continued.
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