OPINION: Trump's tweet during the Yovanovitch testimony changed the course of the impeachment process — and not in his favor.
The second public impeachment hearing should have made less of an impact than the blockbuster first hearing. After all, the witness—former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch—had little testimony to offer about the aid-for-dirt scheme at the core of the inquiry.Trump often blasts his perceived enemies on Twitter, and the result is usually little more than handwringing on cable news.
But that move landed with a thud, given how irrelevant the transcript was. His second attempt to distract—the tweet—succeeded only in making Yovanovitch’s testimony far more weighty and relevant than it might have been otherwise.It’s not hard to see why commentators rushed to call it witness tampering.
More importantly, Trump handed the narrative to Democrats on a day when his supporters could have otherwise argued that Yovanovitch didn’t really provide testimony of truly impeachable acts by Trump.
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