AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s portrait pique and other distortions

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s portrait pique and other distortions

5 years ago
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https://apnews.com/dfb83eff04f14207892ef177a09d50c8

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s latest reasons for firing Marie Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine: She was an “Obama person” who refused to hang Trump’s portrait in the U.S. Embassy. That’s false on both counts.

Trump’s pique about not having his picture displayed in a timely way — actually the fault of his administration, not the ambassador — came during a week of unfounded or distorted statements by the president about the impeachment inquiry and the political favor he sought from Ukraine.