Lawmakers of both parties were stunned to see Trump’s disparaging tweet about the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in the middle of a hearing where she had already described in great detail how she felt personally threatened by the president
mid-hearing on Friday a blatant example of witness intimidation, further building the case to charge the president with obstruction in potential articles of impeachment.
Some lawmakers, meanwhile, were already speculating that it could act as more evidence in their articles of impeachment against Trump. “It’s not something I would do,” Rep. Mike Conaway , who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters during a break from the hearing. And Rep. Devin Nunes , the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told POLITICO: "I don't discuss committee business."Other GOP members argued that the tweet did not amount to witness intimidation, even if they disagreed with the contents of it.Even some of Trump’s most hardcore supporters have been careful not to directly attack Yovanovitch, for fear it could play into Democrats’ hands.
“I have never been a fan of attacking people. That opinion has not changed this week or today,” said retiring Rep. Paul Mitchell ."The tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the President’s opinion, which he is entitled to," she said in a statement. "This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process — or to put it more accurately, a totally illegitimate, charade stacked against the President.
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