Trump Blasts Ex-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter as She Testifies to Congress
Source: The Daily Beast
As former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified to Congress during the second public hearing in the impeachment inquiry on Friday, President Trump blasted the career diplomat on Twitter. Yovanovitch was recalled from her position earlier this year after the presidents lawyerand the former New York City mayorRudy Giuliani reportedly led a campaign to discredit her. She has said her ouster was organized by foreign corrupt interests. Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad, he wrote. It is a U.S. Presidents absolute right to appoint ambassadors. Trump added: They call it serving at the pleasure of the President. The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First! With all of that, however, I have done FAR more for Ukraine than O.
Minutes later, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff referenced the moment live on Capitol Hill, saying: Now the president in real time is attacking you. What effect do you think that has on other witnesses? Yovanovitch called it very intimidating. Schiff responded: Some of us here take witness intimidation very seriously.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-blasts-marie-yovanovitch-on-twitter-while-she-testifies-to-congress?via=twitter_page
Link to tweet
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)brings us closer (Stone Guilty!)!!!
Srkdqltr
(6,271 posts)And just say he didn't want her there, but since he brought it up what did she do wrong in Somalia or anywhere else? He brought it up. He just says things without finishing the thought.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)And wouldn't be corrupt for him. That's the "bad thing" he did.
CuriousAsterisk
(36 posts)What pains me to say is why is there not MORE OUTRAGE AT TRUMP'S LIVE ATTACKS OF HER WHILE SHE IS GIVING HER TESTIMONY?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)Too coherent. I'll bet some lackey tried to imitate his style but didn't succeed.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)It was written at 10:00 AM, still in his "executive time" period, which usually lasts until 11:00 AM - 12:00PM. Then he "works" for an hour, then lunch until 3:00 PM. More "executive time" until 5:00 PM, then the day is over. At 10:00 AM he's usually semi-lucid and could have written it all by himself.
I'm not sticking up for the s.o.b. just explaining why he might have been lucid enough to write that.
ananda
(28,858 posts)God he's stupid!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)This may be 'the' news of the day - real time, witness intimidation while witness is testifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Makes godfather m. Corleone's witness intimidation by showing the 'brother' look like costume melodrama].
gab13by13
(21,304 posts)good move by Pelosi putting Schiff in charge.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Commentators noting that trump tweet intimidation in the middle of her testimony, is trump doing what Dems would have tried to do.
trump probably has the 'cons in their meeting room, banging their heads against the wall, as they consider how to handle . . . trump?!!!!!!!!
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)mahannah
(893 posts)dchill
(38,472 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,444 posts)Amazing.
OnlinePoker
(5,719 posts)These #ImpeachmentHearings are proving that your foreign policy has always been, quite simply, Donald First!
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Or is it the other way around.
Like Pelosi told him in his face, all roads for you lead to Putin.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)And the Donald is America. In other words: L'etat - c'est moi, as Louis XIV said.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)to ad hoc adjust to trump tweet, and news REACTIONS, - and what else trump might say!!!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Trump has fired or removed covered by EEOC and other worker protected Laws and rules? If so,we are going to see hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful discharge Law Suits.
Appears the Courts are going to be busy for the next Ten years cleaning up this Manure Pile.
Chakaconcarne
(2,444 posts)and were prepared to address it during the testimony...
Phew....
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)lamp_shade
(14,828 posts)demmiblue
(36,841 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)Never known about a person with so many character flaws than this guy, its hard to see how so many other people cannot see the same, his flaws are so transparent.
ffr
(22,669 posts)What a crazed maniac!
This his him defending his indefensible actions?
Javaman
(62,517 posts)SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)Along with 55% of the population think that the idiot (dangerous one, at that, sitting in the white house) should be in jail..........
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)Another count for you impeachment and eventual jailing.