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Ambassador Yovanovitch had a well-earned reputation as a fighter of corruption.

And she was working with Ukraine to get Ukraine to fight corruption.

And so what does this irregular back channel

sanctioned by the President do? It seeks to remove someone fighting corruption in Ukraine.

By employing a vicious smear campaign in which the State Department at the highest levels

acknowledged had no merit whatsoever. That smear campaign orchestrated by this irregular

channel was successful in removing a U.S. ambassador. And tarring her reputation, of course,

you see the president's comments about the ambassador in the call record. Yes, you do. He says she's bad news. He does this to

Lieutenant Colonel Vindman too, remember? They trashed him, Purple Heart winner, you know,

actual warfighter, who, you know, is not American enough because he didn't come here until he was

three years old, three years old. And so he has dual loyalties. He's not trustworthy.

He's a traitor. He's a secret spy. He's a Ukrainian asset. He's this. He's that. He cares more about

Ukrainian democracy than he does about American defense. What the hell? I mean, every single person

that tells the truth about this man is smeared in this manner

to the point where they don't even recognize themselves.

So what happened today was just exactly what was promised last week.

Last week we heard from Jackie Spear, we heard from Adam Schiff, we heard from other people

on the Intelligence Committee that the transcripts, you know, the freaking Republicans, oh, we weren't allowed in, let's storm the skiff and blow, and you know that's not true. And you know how you know it's not true? Because the transcripts of the depositions from Maria Yovinovich and from one other guy who also worked in the State

Department. He was an assistant to Mike Pompeo, Mike McKinley, who quit his job because he knew

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