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A partial transcript of the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, shows that President Donald Trump and his allies‘ efforts to intimidate and bully her went much further than previously known.

Yovanovitch testified that she felt threatened by Trump’s comments about her during a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president.

She also said Ukrainian officials told her that a top Ukrainian ally of Rudy Giuliani was looking to „hurt“ her „in the US.“

Ukraine’s minister of the interior, Arsen Avakov, told Yovanovitch he was „very concerned“ about Giuliani and she needed to watch her back.

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Marie Yovanovitch, the US’s former ambassador to Ukraine, laid out a trail of breadcrumbs for Congress to follow in her bombshell testimony last month as part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

Lawmakers released a partial transcript of her closed-door hearing on Monday. The public was already aware of the broad outlines of Yovanovitch’s testimony based on her opening statement. But the transcript released this week shows that the effort by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to intimidate and bully her went much further than previously known.

Yovanovitch is a central figure in the Trump administration’s shadow foreign-policy campaign in Ukraine. The effort revolves around the president and his allies‘ efforts to leverage US policy and strong-arm the Ukrainian government into delivering Trump dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son ahead of the 2020 election.

Legal experts also told Insider that Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who spearheaded the shadow campaign, could have opened themselves up to allegations of bribery, extortion, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds by holding up a nearly $400 million military-aid package to Ukraine while pushing for political investigations that would personally benefit Trump.

Yovanovitch testified to Congress that Trump and Giuliani had been engaged in a smear campaign against her since the summer of 2018 because she refused to let Giuliani use the US embassy in Ukraine in his efforts to obtain dirt on the Bidens.

Some of the biggest takeaways from her blockbuster testimony, according to the partial transcript: