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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'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 Hydes assertion that "you can do anything in Ukraine with money."
Now we dont really know what any of this means, though Ukraine has decided to open an investigation into the surveillance. Its hard to know what this will amount to as a lot of evidence in Trumpworld just turns out to be bravado; theres nothing that Trumpists love more than nicknames and the threat of violence. But its 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 thats 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 Hydes assertion that "you can do anything in Ukraine with money."
Now we dont really know what any of this means, though Ukraine has decided to open an investigation into the surveillance. Its hard to know what this will amount to as a lot of evidence in Trumpworld just turns out to be bravado; theres nothing that Trumpists love more than nicknames and the threat of violence. But its 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 thats 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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I've spoken to women who were destroyed by Trump. The Marie Yovanovitch rumors don't surprise me (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
OP
Because, as we all know, trump is a coward and he feels a female won't punch back
Perseus
Jan 2020
#1
... "the Federalist or the Gateway Pundit or some other arm of the MAGA media" ...
eppur_se_muova
Jan 2020
#5
Perseus
(4,341 posts)1. Because, as we all know, trump is a coward and he feels a female won't punch back
trump is a regular bully, big mouth but runs fast when someone confronts him, he has shown to the world what a coward he is.
OMGWTF
(3,959 posts)2. If he runs in 2020, I hope he gets beaten bigly by a woman.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. Sadly women like yovanovitch don't have the support on the world stage. too
many ppl stayed quiet
Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)4. She's suing someone, isn't she?
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)5. ... "the Federalist or the Gateway Pundit or some other arm of the MAGA media" ...
i.e. ***IT ISN'T JUST TRUMP***
It's the troglodytes that back him and vote for him. Expect them ALL to show the same attitude.