What Went Down During Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

It may appear like this testimony has little to do with impeachment, but it seems to me like it’s meant to lay brick and mortar for Giuliani’s role in Ukraine. If Giuliani’s pressure could remove an ambassador, then, Democrats will likely argue, he also had the power to ask for an investigation into the Bidens.

Yeah, Clare, I agree that Yovanovitch is sympathetic, and it doesn’t make Trump look good to have been vindictive toward her. But making Trump seem distasteful isn’t the same as convincing people he should be impeached. There are already tons of examples of Trump mistreating women (and allegations of worse) — I think that’s baked into opinions of him at this point.

And here we have Goldman, the Democratic counsel, addressing the idea of serving at the pleasure of the president. Asking if she’d ever heard of an ambassador being removed for stories that the State Department itself knew was false.