‘Tampering is when a guy like Shifty Schiff doesn't let us speak’: President Donald Trump accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of not letting Republicans on the committee ask questions on the second day of public hearings
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump launched a Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday while she was testifying to an impeachment hearing in Congress, in an extraordinary moment that Democrats said amounted to witness intimidation.
As Yovanovitch testified, Trump fired off criticism on Twitter in a move Democrats labeled “real-time” witness intimidation. Schiff replied: “Well, I want to let you know, ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.”See more stories Yovanovitch was removed from her post as ambassador to Kiev in May after coming under attack by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, at a time when he was working to persuade Ukraine to carry out two investigations that would benefit the Republican president politically.
Democrats are looking into whether Trump abused his power by withholding $391 million in U.S. security aid to Ukraine as leverage to pressure Kiev to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a leading contender for the Democratic nomination to take on Trump in the 2020 election.
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