Marie Yovanovitch, former US Ambassador to Ukraine, told members of the impeachment enquiry committee that she felt threatened by President Donald Trump.
She said that she feared that the United States of America president was working behind the scenes to have her removed from her ambassadorial position.
Her anxiety was revealed in transcripts of her testimony to the impeachment inquiry investigators.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rubbished the concerns that the former US ambassador said that she had in an interview with American television outlet ABC News.
“From the time that Ambassador Yovanovitch departed Ukraine until the time that he came to tell me that he was departing, I never heard him say a single thing about his concerns with respect to the decision that was made," Mike Pompeo said.
The transcript of the testimony laid bare the bad blood between Marie Yovanovitch and the White House.
The envoy went further to explain how she was advised to tweet her support for the president of the US if she was interested in keeping her job.
She said she rejected the advice, saying that she did not think that a person of her standing ought to have written such a tweet.
“You need to go big or go home,” Gordon Sondland told Yovanovitch, she recalled in her testimony.
“You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the president and that [claims that she was disloyal] are lies," she added.