Last night, right around the time the Senate vote to ban witnesses from the trial took place, @NPR's @michelekelemen broke the story that Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had resigned. Here are some thoughts about the message she tried to deliver
1/https://www.npr.org/2020/01/31/801714623/ambassador-marie-yovanovitch-has-retired-from-foreign-service …
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Some more on vertical power: "where the President can tell the mayor, or the governor, because they appoint those individuals, you need to, you know, bring out this crowd, here's money to pay off voters or whatever." 4/
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In Ukraine, Yovanovitch saw as part of her mission to instruct Ukrainians that it was wrong to use government resources to target political rivals. 5/pic.twitter.com/ubSHezMQuq
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You know where else there is vertical power? New Jersey. Where the Governor appoints the Attorney General and controls almost everyone who could keep gubernatorial power in effect. 6/
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As a result of last night's vote, power in the US is more vertical than any time in recent history. Instead of bringing the US system to former Soviet Union, we are bringing their system here. Marie Yovanovitch tried to make corruption in Ukraine have consequences. 7/
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The lack of consequences for corruption she warned about in Ukraine have now fully manifested themselves in Washington, DC. I wrote about this for
@nybooks https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/31/corruption-with-no-consequences-from-bridgegate-to-impeachment/ … ENDPrikaži ovu nit
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