Donald Trump renewed his attacks on Marie Yovanovitch Friday, this time with a new grievance. “She wouldn’t hang my picture in the embassy!” the president vented in a phone interview with Fox & Friends. “This was an Obama person, didn’t want to hang my picture in the embassy.” To drive his point home, he added, “This was not an angel, this woman.”

Considering this is a guy who used money from his own charity to pay for a portrait of himself, it was perhaps unwise of Yovanovitch to underestimate Trump’s obsession with his own image. Except, according to Yovanovitch’s legal team, the whole story is false. Photos of Trump and his staff were mounted at the Kiev embassy “as soon as they arrived from Washington, DC,” a person connected to the team told NBC News. Indeed, if there was any delay, it appears not to have been on Yovanovitch’s end, but on the White House’s; according to Lewis Lukens, who ran the U.S. embassy in London for much of Trump’s first year in office, it took the Trump administration almost 15 months to send official photos to U.S. embassies—and instructed them not to print substitutes.

Trump, of course, has never been one to let the facts get in the way of a good smear, and he seems particularly unhinged where Yovanovitch is concerned. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” the president tweeted during the former ambassador’s testimony this week, in which she described her abrupt recall from Kiev, a character assassination campaign by Rudy Giuliani and others, and feeling “devastated” upon learning that the president had called her “bad news” to a foreign leader and said she would “go through some things.”

At the time, Trump’s tweet not only rankled Democrats, who foreshadowed that it could appear in an article of impeachment, but it threw off Republicans, who had a harder job pushing their narrative in the face of a highly sympathetic witness. And yet, the president is doubling down, continuing to rail against the well-respected diplomat. “She said bad things about me, she wouldn’t defend me, and I have the right to change an ambassador,” Trump said in his Fox & Friends phoner. “There were a lot of things she did that I didn’t like.”

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