After Marie Yovanovich had testified for about an hour or so this morning, President Trump tweeted about her. He said that she was not a very successful ambassador in any of her postings. This was then posted on Twitter. Within minutes, Adam Schiff interrupted to hearings to read the tweet to Marie Yovanovich and to ask her to respond and also how the tweet made her feel. Schiff then accused President Trump of "witness intimidation".
It's hard to overstate just how ridiculous this charge is. Remember, a witness isn't immune from criticism. For example, I could tell you that some of the witnesses who are listed for testifying next week are biased, incompetent, uninformed or poor at their jobs. That isn't witness intimidation. Indeed, witness intimidation requires threatening the witness with harm if he or she actually testifies or at least gives unhelpful testimony. Trump didn't do that. He just commented on Yovanovich's abilities (or lack thereof) as an ambassador. But more important is that Trump didn't tell this to Yovanovich. Trump tweeted while she was testifying. Yovanovich wasn't checking Trump's Twitter account; she was busy. Yovanovich would never have even known about the tweet before the end of her testimony but for the fact that Democrat Adam Schiff rushed to tell her about it.
Now, however, the Democrats and their toadies in the media are busy adopting this "witness intimidation" nonsense. No rational and sane person could accept that as valid. In fact, the reliance of the Democrats on this nonsense shows that they are scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel to try to come up something, anything that could possibly be the basis for impeachment.
It's hard to overstate just how ridiculous this charge is. Remember, a witness isn't immune from criticism. For example, I could tell you that some of the witnesses who are listed for testifying next week are biased, incompetent, uninformed or poor at their jobs. That isn't witness intimidation. Indeed, witness intimidation requires threatening the witness with harm if he or she actually testifies or at least gives unhelpful testimony. Trump didn't do that. He just commented on Yovanovich's abilities (or lack thereof) as an ambassador. But more important is that Trump didn't tell this to Yovanovich. Trump tweeted while she was testifying. Yovanovich wasn't checking Trump's Twitter account; she was busy. Yovanovich would never have even known about the tweet before the end of her testimony but for the fact that Democrat Adam Schiff rushed to tell her about it.
Now, however, the Democrats and their toadies in the media are busy adopting this "witness intimidation" nonsense. No rational and sane person could accept that as valid. In fact, the reliance of the Democrats on this nonsense shows that they are scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel to try to come up something, anything that could possibly be the basis for impeachment.
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