Forum Overview :: Balance of Power :: It was tampering, don't be dumb

[quote name="-"][quote name="Vested Id"][quote name="Mysterio"]He did tamper with a witness in a nice 21st Century way. To say otherwise is just silly.[/quote] [quote name="Vox"]Trump's live-tweeting during Ambassador Yovanovitch's testimony was inappropriate but did not constitute witness tampering. The federal crime of witness tampering requires proof of intent to ...[/quote] Copied this from a search page.[/quote] Is that what you did? You copied it from a search page? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/11/17/impeachment-trump-yovanovitch-witness-tampering-obstruction-column/4214453002/ [quote]A pattern of public witness tampering “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," he wrote less than an hour after the Friday hearing began. "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.” (That July 25 call was when Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky that Yovanovitch was “bad news” and “things were going to happen to her.” Yovanovitch testified that when she read the call summary, she was so "devastated" that "the color drained from my face" and she had a "physical reaction.")Trump ended with, "It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors." House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff read Trump's tweet to Yovanovitch during her live testimony and asked for her reaction. Viewers saw in real time as she responded, with admirable restraint, that it was “very intimidating.” As dramatic as it may seem that Trump effectively interrupted a witness’s testimony to attack her as she spoke, this was not his first foray into public witness tampering. It is, in fact, one of his go-to moves: ?At 4 a.m. on Feb. 27, 2019, the morning Trump’s former lawyer-fixer, Michael Cohen, was set to testify before Congress, Trump tweeted that Cohen “was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time.” ?And just days before Cohen’s original testimony date of Jan. 24, Trump tweeted threatening comments suggesting that Cohen’s father-in-law should be investigated. ?Trump tweeted disparaging remarks ("Never a big fan!") about former White House Counsel Don McGahn at a time when congressional Democrats were actively seeking McGahn’s testimony about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, which highlighted his testimony as implicating Trump in multiple counts of obstruction of justice.[/quote] "Hm, this thin guy didn't tamper." [/quote]