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- The US' former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, told House lawmakers pursuing an impeachment probe that she discussed concerns that Trump officials had sought to smear her and pressure her to resign with EU ambassador Gordon Sondland.
- In response, she claimed that Sondland told her she needed to tweet praise for Trump to make clear her support.
- "He said, 'You know, you need to go big or go home,'" she recalled of her conversation with Sondland. "'You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the president."
- Yovanovitch stepped aside in May, after coming under attack from right-wing media figures in the US and a senior Ukrainian official.
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The US' former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, in transcripts of testimony to House lawmakers made public Monday said that she had been told by the US' EU ambassador to tweet praise for President Donald Trump as she learnt of a campaign to undermine her.
Yovanovitch told representatives investigating possible impeachable offenses by Trump, that she had discussed in a phone call with Sondland her concerns about hostile media reports about her in the US. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope See Also:  |