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Democrats say Trump tweet is 'witness intimidation,' fuels impeachment push | TheHill

posted onNovember 16, 2019
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Article snippet: House Democrats wasted no time Friday saying MORE’s real-time Twitter attack on a top U.S. diplomat — as she was testifying on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine — was more evidence of presidential misconduct as they charge ahead with their impeachment probe.  “The president in real time is engaging in witness intimidation and witness tampering,” an exasperated Rep. MORE, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was removed abruptly in May. “I don’t know how much more egregious it has to get before the American people are going to recognize we have someone in the White House who conducts himself in a criminal manner on a day-to-day basis.” Rep. MORE’s (D-Calif.) leadership team. “It should be considered for obstruction. It’s evidence of more obstruction, intimidating the witness, tampering with the witness’s testimony. “But it really goes to his guilt ...  Innocent people just don’t do this.” Yovanovitch is the third witness to appear publicly this week before the Intelligence Committee, which is investigating whether Trump abused his office by pressing foreign leaders in Kyiv to find dirt on his domestic political adversaries. Roughly an hour into her testimony, Trump took to Twitter to portray the respected 33-year veteran of the foreign service as ineffective and incompetent. The president appeared to suggest Yovanovitch was responsible for the 1993 botched military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia, that killed 19 American soldiers.  The ambassador was in Somalia during... Link to the full article to read more

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