Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine failed to hang Trump’s Photo at Embassy, US President says

11:53, 23.11.2019

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch failed to hang a photo of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv for more than a year after Trump’s inauguration and said “bad things” about him, U.S. president told Fox News in an interview on November 22.

The White House recalled Yovanovitch from her post in Kyiv on April 24, 2019, after months of allegations in the media claiming that she did not like Trump and was undermining him. Trump’s anecdote about the portrait, if confirmed, would become the first piece of evidence to substantiate the allegations.

“This ambassador that everyone says is so wonderful she wouldn’t hang my picture in the embassy ok? She’s in charge of the embassy. She wouldn’t hang it. It took like a year and a half or two years for her to get the picture up,” Trump said. “She said bad things about me. She wouldn’t defend me.”

Yovanovitch was one of the first witnesses to testify during the closed-door phase of the impeachment inquiry, as reported by The Epoch Times.

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