Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice. I send a question to the desk for the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Blumenthal to the House managers: On April 24, 2019--one day after the media reported that former Vice President Biden would formally enter the 2020 U.S. Presidential race--the State Department executed President Trump's order to recall Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, a well-regarded career diplomat and anti- corruption crusader. Why did President Trump want, in his words, to ``take her out''? Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Mr. Giuliani has provided the answer to that question. He stated publicly that the reason they needed to get Ambassador Yovanovitch out of the way was that she was going to get in the way of these investigations that they wanted. This is the President's own lawyer's explanation for why they had to push out--why they had to smear--Ambassador Yovanovitch. So the President's own lawyer gives us the answer, and that ought to tell us something in a couple of respects: one, that the President's own agents have said that she was an impediment to getting these investigations. She was this anti-corruption champion, this anti- corruption champion who is at an awards ceremony or recognition ceremony for a Ukrainian anti-corruption fighter, a woman who had acid thrown in her face and died a painful death after months.…”