"Former President Barack Obama fired all ambassadors appointed by former President George W. Bush in 2008, the Washington Post previously reported. Yovanovitch testified Friday that the Trump administration, including the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, “kneecapped” her. She said that she was not supported by State Department leaders after being recalled in May.
“Political ambassadors sometimes are permitted to stay on briefly during a new administration, but the sweeping nature of the directive suggests that Obama has little interest in retaining any of Bush’s ambassadorial appointees,” WaPo’s 2008 article about Obama’s decision to fire all political ambassadors reads."
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/flashback-obama-fired-all-bush-appointed-ambassadors-in-2008/
Now shut up you dumb asses
So what? Did President Obama also smear them with distortions/lies/misinformation and destroy their careers and reputations?
It seems to me that Yovanovitch started it all by attacking the president. Trump was every right to defend himself. As far as I know nothing Trump said about her was a lie.
I have a question for you: In the entire history of the United States, has any former ambassador ever testified during an impeachment inquiry and criticized the president's foreign policy decisions - decisions which he and he alone has the right to make? What she thinks foreign policy should be is irrelevant. That is way above her pay grade as a mere ambassador.
Yovanovith has the delusional impression that she is ENTITLED to keep her job as an ambassador because she THINKS she was doing a good job.. She is wrong. Trump has the absolute and unreviewable right to fire her for any reason and he does not have to explain his decision to anyone. You do know that ambassadors are not supposed to engage in politics in their host country, nor are they allowed to engage in controversial conduct. I contend that her participation in a gay pride parade in Ukraine was a direct and flagrant violation of her official duties. Although Trump didn't need a reason to fire her, her misconduct constituted just cause for removal.
I still wonder why the Democrats are shedding crocodile tears because this one lone person lost her job. When Obama fired ALL ambassadors appointed by Bush and replaced them with his own people, no one made an issue of it. She lost her job, so what? Let her have her pity party in private. It's not like she can't find gainful employment somewhere else.
One final thought. The far left has been smearing Trump from the day he was elected. They made up false charges against him and smeared his character daily . With the dedicated assistance of their allies in the MSM they tried to destroy the man. What they did to Trump was unconscionable. Now these same people are upset when Trump sends a short tweet criticizing a former ambassador's job performance. Unlike Trump's vicious and unscrupulous critics, Trump did not accuse Yovanowitch of criminal conduct; nor did he accuse her of dishonesty or demean her character in any way. He simply said her job performance was substandard, and he was right.