Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Rudy Giuliani when deciding not to issue a statement in support of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, according to testimony from Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale released Monday evening.
Hale told the House Intelligence Committee in a Nov. 6 deposition that Pompeo ordered the State Department not to issue a statement in support on Yovanovitch in March 2019, as The Hill columnist John Solomon published a series of articles with trumped up claims against the then-sitting U.S. ambassador in Kyiv.
Hale added that Pompeo spoke with Giuliani as attacks against Yovanovitch continued, and the …read more
Source:: TPM
