Adam Schiff accused President Trump of live, real-time witness intimidation during Friday’s impeachment hearings after Trump tweeted an attack on Marie Yovanovitch
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Getty Images House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff accused President Trump of “witness intimidation in real time” during Friday’s impeachment hearings after the president tweeted an attack on Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, while she was testifying to Congress.
“Would you like to respond to the president’s attack that everywhere you went turned bad?” Schiff asked after reading parts of the tweets to her. Trump’s defenders were quick to dismiss the charge, with Representative Lee Zeldin noting that Yovanovich was unaware that she’d been attacked by the president until Schiff read the tweets to her:
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