Not only is it wrong, and bad for the American people, but it sends a signal to dictators around the world that deals can be done with that administration, weakening the United States.
Marie Yovanovitch: “Not only is it wrong, and bad for the American people, but it sends a signal to dictators around the world that deals…”
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Yovanovitch criticizes the previous administration's approach to foreign policy, particularly regarding Ukraine.
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I was the target of a 'smear campaign' by the President and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. I called Giuliani's work a 'campaign of misinformation.'
I think that he was hoping that this would be -- he believed, no doubt, that this would be an easy, victorious campaign, and it would boost his popularity ratings as he’s starting to go into the 2024 presidential elections.
I think we need to ask ourselves, as the international community, how do we help the Ukraine, how do we support Ukraine, how do we save Ukraine without expanding the war in ways that nobody wants to see?
Well, I think it just shows that President Trump was using Ukraine as a pawn for his own personal reasons.