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Cotton: ‘Badmouthing The President’ Is ‘Pretty Sound Reason To Remove An Ambassador’


Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) believes that “badmouthing” President Trump was enough to justify Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s ouster.
In an interview Sunday morning on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan pressed Cotton on the April 2018 recording of Trump telling Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman to “take [Yovanovitch] out!” after he was told that the career foreign service officer was “badmouthing” him in Kyiv.
When asked if he found it troubling that there are recordings of the President discussing the Ukraine pressure campaign with Giuliani associates, who he claimed he didn’t know, Cotton denied that he had any concerns and …read more

Source:: TPM

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