What Went Down During Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

I also think Yovanovitch’s reputation for being tough on corruption likely didn’t help her hold on to her post, Perry. She’d been in Ukraine for a while, too, and was already getting reports from Ukrainians about Giuliani’s pressure campaign. A new ambassador was going to have to take a while to get up to speed, and it’s true that even though Taylor has ended up being a big thorn in the White House’s side, it took him some time to figure out what was going on.

She is (rightly) furious at being fired for no real reason, but is stating that in a very diplomatic way.

My guess is that the Trump people assumed Yovanovitch would not play ball with them because she is a foreign service officer and a woman. Taylor, a man, of course replaced her and didn’t play ball with them either.