The democrats’ “star” witness in the sham impeachment inquiry today is former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Her relevancy to the proceedings appears to be that her feelings were hurt when President Trump fired her for doing a bad job. During her testimony, Trump tweeted out a summary of her poor performance and Coup Committee chairman Adam Schiff read it into the record with an accusation that the President was intimidating the witness. Clearly the focus of the impeachment inquiry has moved on from quid pro quo to mean tweets.
While Yovanovitch was testifying, democrat Schiff was busy playing on his phone because he noticed immediately when Trump sent out this tweet:
Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2019
Schiff interrupted the proceedings and read the tweet outloud, calling it “witness intimidation.
Right now, President Trump is watching our hearing and tweeting baseless attacks against Ambassador Yovanovitch.
This is witness intimidation in real time. And we won’t stand for it. pic.twitter.com/2MngDNJUaw
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 15, 2019
Schiff then asked Yovanovitch what she thought of the President’s tweet and she agreed:
“It’s very intimidating,” Yovanovitch said.
“It’s designed to intimidate, is it not?” Schiff asked, leading the witness.
“I can’t speak to what the president is trying to do but I think the effect is to be intimidating,” said Yovanovitch.
Would you look at that. Schiff made an accusation and a witness immediately agreed. That’s called “corroboration.” Sadly this is the extent of the “evidence” against President Trump in this complete farce of an impeachment inquiry. All witness testimony is based on people’s hurt feelings and not anything that resembles evidence.
But what does Hillary Clinton think? No seriously, Hillary chimed in quickly with this lack of self-awareness.
Witness intimidation is a crime, no matter who does it. Full stop.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 15, 2019
Really? Maybe we should ask Jeffrey Epstein or Vince Foster if witness intimidation is a crime. Oops, we can’t because they got “suicided” for what they knew about the Clintons.
Hillary gets a pass on the hypocrisy here because she didn’t say “Killing witnesses is a crime no matter who does it. Full Stop.”
The Clintons figured out a long time ago that eliminating witnesses is a far more effective method than intimidating them. Dead men tell no tales.
Getting back to the accusation against Trump, how is this an attempt to intimidate a witness? He doesn’t threaten Yovanovitch overtly or covertly. He simply points out that she was terrible at her job and that’s the reason why she was fired. This sham impeachment inquiry has become an HR complaint/therapy session.
The only thing Yovanovitch brings to this “investigation” is that she’s sad she was fired from her post. She cries a lot and talks in a baby voice to make herself appear as a helpless victim.
Trump is right. Presidents do have the power to assign and recall ambassadors. The democrats are so desperate to overthrow the duly-elected President too the United States that they are trying to argue that the firing of a diplomate constitutes an impeachable offense.
