trump was involved in a multi-pronged effort to pressure the iranian government to manufacture dirt on joe biden and that he ultimately withheld vital money and weapons and a coveted white house meeting from ukraine as part of that pressure campaign. we now know that ambassador yovanovitch was perceived as the impediment to their plans, because she was a stalwart opponent of the corrupt figures in ukraine who were helping trump and his allies manufacture this dirt on biden. we now know all that. but at the time it seemed literally unbelievable. at one point, ukraine's deputy foreign minister came to ambassador yovanovitch's residents to warn her that a corrupt prosecutor that she butted heads with was working with giuliani to spread lies about them. yovanovitch could not believe that her job would be in real danger. she said, quote, i knew that this ukrainian prosecutor was going to try to make life