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Are you so silly that you don't understand the tweet can be used to intimidate FUTURE witnesses?
Schiff read it into the record - as any decent attorney would have.
Good lands,man. Even FAUX thinks the Trump Tweet as a huge mistake.
Well I am sure they are shaking in their boots. That Tweet was vintage Trump, the same behavior we have seen time after time. That didn’t seem to “‘ intimidate” all the previous cast of characters that Dems have lined up to trash the POTUS. Plus the Dems will provide a Lawyer, a sympathetic MSM and all the help in the world.
Whatever it takes.
He read it into the record because his case has holes in it , and he needed the violins to accompany the organ notes during the breaks of this Soap Opera.
Unlike LIbs, I don’t take marching orders from anyone.
The hearing was absolutely pathetic, a huge waste of time and taxpayer money. To watch all the self absorbed pompous Dems in this Inquisition is a disgrace.
If she was doing such a bad job....why did it take Trump three years -- oh never mind. Two weeks after this administration extends her contract they cancel it because they didn't mean to extend it?
However you want to play this -- this administration is incompetent.
"if she was doing such a bad job....why did it take Trump three years -"
Are you this ignorant?
When a NEW president was Elected-he did NOT like her. If you don't understand this, it is no wonder you have TDS!
Another false equivalency. There are two types of ambassadors: foreign service officers (career diplomats) and political appointees. It isn't unusual for political appointees to come and go as administrations change. Obama dismissed the political ambassadors. Yovanovitch was a foreign service officer, a career diplomat. Foreign service officers are nonpartisan and serve under different administrations irrespective of party. It is not typical for presidents to dismiss career diplomats.
It's not unreasonable to believe that Yovanovitch was fired because she's a known liar. She perjured herself under oath while testifying before Congress Friday. Roger Stone her. SWAT at pre-dawn, and all.
From Yovanovitch's opening statement, Friday, Novenber 15, 2019 (on page 8):
"I have never met Hunter Biden, nor have I had any direct or indirect conversations with him. And although I have met former Vice President Biden several times over the course of our many years in government, neither he nor the previous Administration ever raised the issue of either Burisma or Hunter Biden with me." https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...Statement.html
But then later that same day (at 3:20 in the video)...
Another false equivalency. There are two types of ambassadors: foreign service officers (career diplomats) and political appointees. It isn't unusual for political appointees to come and go as administrations change. Obama dismissed the political ambassadors. Yovanovitch was a foreign service officer, a career diplomat. Foreign service officers are nonpartisan and serve under different administrations irrespective of party. It is not typical for presidents to dismiss career diplomats.
I don't know what point you're trying to make because this information doesn't contradict my own. Yovanovitch was a career diplomat, not a political appointee. Those are two different things. Being confirmed by the Senate doesn't make her political. She was unanimously confirmed, which proved her confirmation was nonpartisan. Both parties wanted her in. Believe it or not, Trump doesn't make every single governmental decision on his own. The Senate still has some say in what goes on in our country. Can Trump fire her? Sure. Is it very weird that he did? Yes, especially since he didn't give a reason on Twitter. Oh wait, he did. Somalia went bad after she was posted there It is not normal for presidents to fire career diplomats. Both Republicans and Democrats have a mutual interest in maintaining the national security of the United States. That is, unless they are corrupt presidents. Then they have a very good reason to fire nonpartisan career diplomats whose sole purpose is to root out corruption.
If the House impeaches Trump and it moves to a trial in the Senate, who will testify for the Democrats if no heresay testimony is allowed as Sen Graham has stated?
Could someone list those currently testifying in the House who will be eligible to testify at the trial?
"Wanted to let everyone else know they better think twice before they follow her courageous example. "
Is that why obama fired EVERY SINGLE W. Bush Ambassadoright after he took office?
And why clinton fired EVER one of the 93 Attorney Generals?
No one on the left complained about it then but, when W.Bush fired only 4 Attorney Generals, the dems and the left media went crazy.
"Wanted to let everyone else know they better think twice before they follow her courageous example."
And just what did she do to show, "her courageous example"?
If Trump had dismissed her at any time before Guilliani started spreading lies about her you have a good point.
But there is no official record of ANYTHING she did to question her ability to do the job well. And just two weeks before she was asked to extend her contract.
And if someone on the right had been able to show an Ambassador dismissed by Obama where a personal attorney of Obama's had been spreading lies about her...I suspect we would have had some conversations similar to this.
You can't gloss over the facts.
Trump never suggested her agenda was inappropriate, insufficient, etc. She was aksed in the middle of the night to get the next plane out because Guilliani and Trump were going to escalate their personal influence (not the agenda of the USA -- Trumpps personal agenda) and they knew she would not 'cooperate'.
AND letj's not leave out that Trump's big supporter also is questioning Trump's actions.
You are comparing apples to liver.....they aren't even in the same food group....lol
You can't leave out key details that suggest her ousting had more to do with Trump's personal agenda than the agenda of the United States Govt.
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It is not normal for presidents to fire career diplomats. Both Republicans and Democrats have a mutual interest in maintaining the national security of the United States. That is, unless they are corrupt presidents. Then they have a very good reason to fire nonpartisan career diplomats whose sole purpose is to root out corruption.