What Went Down During Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

On Wednesday we noted that the electorate tends not to be focused on foreign affairs. But making institutions political when they should not be political was part of what brought down Nixon, who used the FBI and the IRS to target political opponents. This isn’t exactly the same thing, but the narrative of making the State Dept. political and poisonous seems like a pretty straightforward and damaging one.

Is Trump talking about the July 25 call? If so, he was the one who brought up Yovanovitch first! According to the call memo, he said, “The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news.” Zelensky replied, “It was great that you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree with you 100%.”

Trump is now tweeting attacks on Yovanovitch. Is he seriously blaming her for awful world events in places she was stationed? “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go?” Paging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…