Amb. Marie Yovanovitch Knew More About Burisma than She Admitted to Impeachment Inquiry

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Newly-released State Department documents suggest that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch knew more about Burisma, the corrupt company tied to Hunter Biden, than she told the House impeachment inquiry last year.

In November 2019, Yovanovitch testified in a public hearing before the House Intelligence Committee that she first learned about Burisma when she was being briefed for her confirmation hearings in 2016, and that the company was “not a focus” when she arrived at post.

In October, in her closed-door deposition, Yovanovitch told the committee — under oath — that she did not recall being briefed by embassy staff about Burisma, and that much of what she had learned came from “press reports.”

 

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Yovanovitch was portrayed sympathetically by Democrats during the impeachment inquiry and trial as a victim of President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who they claimed smeared her.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/14/report-amb-marie-yovanovitch-knew-more-about-with-burisma-than-she-admitted-to-impeachment-inquiry/

 

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During President Trump’s impeachment, former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified to Congress that she knew little beyond an initial briefing and “press reports” about Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and was dogged by a corruption investigation.

“It just wasn’t a big deal,” she declared under oath on Oct. 11, 2019.

But newly unearthed State Department memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show Yovanovitch’s embassy in Kiev, including the ambassador herself, was engaged in several discussions and meetings about Burisma as the gas firm scrambled during the 2016 election and transition to settle a long-running corruption investigation and polish its image before President Trump took office.

Yovanovitch, for instance, was specifically warned in an email by her top deputy in September 2016 — three years before her testimony — that Burisma had hired an American firm with deep Democratic connections called Blue Star Strategies to “rehabilitate the reputation” of the Ukrainian gas firm and that it had placed “Hunter Biden on its board,” the memos show.

She also met directly with a representative for Burisma in her embassy office, less than 45 days before Trump took office, a contact she did not mention during her impeachment deposition.

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/impeachment-boomerang-contacts-exposed-between-us

 

Lied under oath.

[Dashinka 24,592]

Heard about this.  I thought the mainstream media was treating her as saint?

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24 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Heard about this.  I thought the mainstream media was treating her as saint?

They were all treating each other nice. Hence why she was pointlessly brought before the House, the "how does this Trump tweet make you feel?" type questions in committee, media fawning, etc. Even the Wikipedia entry for her is comical in its glowing endorsement of her and villainizing of Trump. 

 

She's predictably another unelected member of the administrative state who decided to try and subvert American Democracy and subvert her own President. She was not elected by Americans, while the left conveniently flock to her to try and overthrow a democratically elected President while flapping their gums about democracy. No surprises at any of this stuff, just cementing of facts surrounding serious threats to the Republic.