Donald Trump launches psychotic attack on Marie Yovanovitch during her devastating impeachment testimony
Even as Donald Trump’s oldest friend Roger Stone was being pronounced guilty on charges that included witness intimidation, Trump decided to try intimidating a witness of his own. Trump has done this before, of course. But in a dark new twist, Trump launched a psychotic attack on former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch today while she was testifying against him at the House impeachment hearings.
Marie Yovanovitch has been giving roughly the kind of public testimony today that we were expecting, based on the transcript that was released from her earlier closed-door testimony. But while her words today weren’t much of a surprise to those who have been paying close attention, they were nonetheless jarring. And for anyone who is just now starting to pay attention to the impeachment process, Yovanovitch’s testimony today was ground shaking.
That’s probably what prompted Trump to post this profoundly deranged tweet while she was still testifying: “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. 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.”
This was clear-cut felony witness intimidation on Donald Trump’s part. It’ll be added to the articles of impeachment against him. It’ll be an additional felony indictment against him once he’s no longer in office. He’ll get an even longer prison sentence for it in the end. If Trump wants to know what his future looks like, he should just ask his newly convicted friend Roger Stone.
