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'Smear campaign, fueled on Fox News, was leading to tweets implying "violence" and "lynching."'
Top State Official Testifies About Smear Campaign Against Ambassador
The committees leading the House impeachment probe released on Tuesday the transcript of their interview with Philip Reeker, a top State Department official.
Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, described for House investigators the smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch
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Reeker described a particularly ugly period in March, when the smear campaign, which was being fueled on Fox News, was leading to tweets implying “violence” and “lynching.”
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Reeker described getting a recommendation from David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs, on March 23 that Yovanovitch “should deny on the record saying anything disrespectful and reaffirm her loyalty as an ambassador and [foreign service officer] to POTUS and Constitution.” Reeker said he could not think of another instance where an ambassador, who was under a false attack, was asked to make a statement of support for the President.
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Yovanovitch was so well-regarded in the foreign service community that Reeker asked her if she would consider succeeding him in his role overseeing all of Europe. - TPM
The committees leading the House impeachment probe released on Tuesday the transcript of their interview with Philip Reeker, a top State Department official.
Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, described for House investigators the smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch
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Reeker described a particularly ugly period in March, when the smear campaign, which was being fueled on Fox News, was leading to tweets implying “violence” and “lynching.”
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Reeker described getting a recommendation from David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs, on March 23 that Yovanovitch “should deny on the record saying anything disrespectful and reaffirm her loyalty as an ambassador and [foreign service officer] to POTUS and Constitution.” Reeker said he could not think of another instance where an ambassador, who was under a false attack, was asked to make a statement of support for the President.
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Yovanovitch was so well-regarded in the foreign service community that Reeker asked her if she would consider succeeding him in his role overseeing all of Europe. - TPM
So because of these ratf*cking rePuticans, instead of Yovanovitch moving up, serving as U.S. Ambassador to the EU, she gets threats against her life and well being, then banished from public service.
RePuticans are ripping the fabric of this nation apart one day at a time.
FUCK!!!
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