Sunday, November 17, 2019

Trump Inaccurately Links Ambassador Yovanovitch to Somalia's Problems

Politifact posted on 15 November 2019 an article titled "Trump Inaccurately Disparages Yovanovitch in Somalia, Ukraine" by Amy Sherman.

In a tweet on 15 November, President Trump implied that things went bad in Somalia because former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was once assigned to the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu. In the late 1980s, this was the first Foreign Service assignment for Yovanovitch. The idea that she, as a junior officer in the embassy, caused things to go bad is absurd.