November 17, 2019: President Trump Attacks Another Witness

 

11/17/19: President Trump appears to be losing his sh*t. Having learned that Vice President Jesus’s top security adviser has told lawmakers that his July 25 call to President Zelensky was “unusual and inappropriate,” he lashes out. 

“Tell Jennifer Williams, whoever that is, to read BOTH transcripts of the presidential calls, & see the just released statement [sic] from Ukraine,” he tweets. “Then she should meet with the other Never Trumpers, who I don’t know & mostly never even heard of, & work out a better presidential attack!” 

Coming next: Trump accuses Melania of being a “Never Trumper?”

Could the First Lady be a “Never Trumper!”

 

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Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Turner, a Republican on the congressional panel conducting the impeachment inquiry, starts to give ground. 

 

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“Well, of course, all of that is alarming.” 

Rep. Mike Turner

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Appearing on Jake Tapper’s Sunday show, State of the Union, he admits that the testimony he has heard has not been, shall we say, helpful to the president. “Well, of course, all of that is alarming,” he admits in response to a question by Tapper. “As I’ve said from the beginning, I think this is not OK. The President of the United States shouldn’t even in the original phone call be on the phone with the president of another country and raise his political opponent. So, no, this is not OK.” (This would be the July 25 call the president has insisted is “PERFECT.”) 

What about those tweets attacking Ambassador Yovanovitch, as she was testifying, Tapper asked? Did that rise to the level of witness intimidation? 

“It’s certainly not impeachable, and it’s certainly not criminal and it’s certainly not witness intimidation. It certainly wasn’t trying to prevent her or wouldn’t have prevented her from testifying, she was actually in the process of testifying. But nonetheless, I find the President’s tweets unfortunate,” the congressman said.

 

“I think along with most people, I find the President’s tweets, generally, unfortunate,” Turner reiterated. 

In other words, the latest Republican line of defense boils down to this. Trump is a giant dick. But you can’t be impeached for being a dick.

Ms. Williams testified under oath.