DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “The State Department’s request went in early March to Marie L. Yovanovitch, a longtime diplomat who had served six presidents: Would she extend her term as ambassador to Ukraine, scheduled to end in August, into 2020? Less than two months later came another departmental communiqué: Get ‘on the next plane’ to Washington. Her ambassadorship was over. How and why Ms. Yovanovitch was removed from her job has emerged as a major focus of the impeachment inquiry being conducted by House Democrats. And in nearly nine hours of testimony behind closed doors on Capitol Hill on Friday, Ms. Yovanovitch said she was told after her recall that President Trump had lost trust in her and had been seeking her ouster since summer 2018 — even though, one of her bosses told her, she had ‘done nothing wrong.’ Her version of events added a new dimension to the tale of the campaign against her.”
–Sharon LaFraniere, Nicholas Fandos and Andrew E. Kramer, “Ukraine Envoy Says She Was Told Trump Wanted Her Out Over Lack of Trust,” The New York Times online, October 11, 2019