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I've spoken to women who were destroyed by Trump. The Marie Yovanovitch rumors don't surprise me
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-marie-yovanovitch-impeachment-lev-parnas-tweets-messages-a9287656.html
Marie Yovanovitch said she never expected the treatment she received at the hands of the Trump administration ( Getty )
The tranche of Lev Parnas text messages and letters revealed the way in which this administration deals with its unruly female servants
Molly Jong-Fast
New York
31 minutes ago
On Tuesday, the Democratic Congress dumped a tranche of Lev Parnas text messages, letters, and photos. In this enormous document dump we learned some wacky, wild and deeply disturbing stuff, the most upsetting of which was that 61-year-old Masha Yovanovitch was being “tracked” by Giuliani and Lev Parnas. There were more nefarious hints, too, about what they were plotting, including Hyde’s assertion that "you can do anything in Ukraine with money."
Now we don’t really know what any of this means, though Ukraine has decided to open an investigation into the surveillance. It’s hard to know what this will amount to as a lot of “evidence” in Trumpworld just turns out to be bravado; there’s nothing that Trumpists love more than nicknames and the threat of violence. But it’s still important to point out that these text messages illustrate a pattern which is all too common in this administration — especially where women are concerned.
Ukrainian ambassador Masha Yovanovitch is most famous for her November 15 Congressional testimony, which was met with live-tweeting from the president of the United States.
“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” tweeted the president as Yovanovitch was testifying before Congress. Of course, Yovanovitch was placed in those “bad” places because they were hardship posts, places that needed a seasoned state department employee. At one point Masha opined, “I do wonder why it was necessary to smear my reputation.” And perhaps that’s the most striking thing that happens to the female public servants of Trumpworld. Again and again, we see women who, because they refused to deviate from their jobs and do the bidding of Trump or Giuliani, are smeared and ruined, destroyed and discarded. Their life of service is used as a punchline, as a tweet, as anecdote in the Federalist or the Gateway Pundit or some other arm of the MAGA media.
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Marie Yovanovitch said she never expected the treatment she received at the hands of the Trump administration ( Getty )
The tranche of Lev Parnas text messages and letters revealed the way in which this administration deals with its unruly female servants
Molly Jong-Fast
New York
31 minutes ago
On Tuesday, the Democratic Congress dumped a tranche of Lev Parnas text messages, letters, and photos. In this enormous document dump we learned some wacky, wild and deeply disturbing stuff, the most upsetting of which was that 61-year-old Masha Yovanovitch was being “tracked” by Giuliani and Lev Parnas. There were more nefarious hints, too, about what they were plotting, including Hyde’s assertion that "you can do anything in Ukraine with money."
Now we don’t really know what any of this means, though Ukraine has decided to open an investigation into the surveillance. It’s hard to know what this will amount to as a lot of “evidence” in Trumpworld just turns out to be bravado; there’s nothing that Trumpists love more than nicknames and the threat of violence. But it’s still important to point out that these text messages illustrate a pattern which is all too common in this administration — especially where women are concerned.
Ukrainian ambassador Masha Yovanovitch is most famous for her November 15 Congressional testimony, which was met with live-tweeting from the president of the United States.
“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” tweeted the president as Yovanovitch was testifying before Congress. Of course, Yovanovitch was placed in those “bad” places because they were hardship posts, places that needed a seasoned state department employee. At one point Masha opined, “I do wonder why it was necessary to smear my reputation.” And perhaps that’s the most striking thing that happens to the female public servants of Trumpworld. Again and again, we see women who, because they refused to deviate from their jobs and do the bidding of Trump or Giuliani, are smeared and ruined, destroyed and discarded. Their life of service is used as a punchline, as a tweet, as anecdote in the Federalist or the Gateway Pundit or some other arm of the MAGA media.
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Great read
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