When impeachment witness Fiona Hill was a child, a boy set her hair on fire during a test. She put it out with her bare hands and finished the test.
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- Fiona Hill, the former director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, has experience facing adverse circumstances under pressure.
- When Hill was 11 years old, she was taking a test in class when a boy set her pigtail on fire. Hill simply put out the fire with her hands and finished taking the test, The New York Times reported.
- Hill has proven to be a star witness in the impeachment inquiry hearings.
- She testified that Rudy Giuliani, US ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, and others implemented a shadow campaign to pressure Ukraine to intervene in US domestic politics to benefit Trump.
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Fiona Hill, the former director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, has experience facing adverse circumstances under pressure.
When Hill, who was born and raised in northeast England, was 11 years old, a boy set her pigtail on fire in class. Hill simply put out the fire with her hands and finished taking the test, The New York Times reported. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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