A panel discussion on CNN Monday afternoon highlighted how unusual it was for President Donald Trump to publish a tweet attacking former acting Attorney General Sally Yates mere hours before she testified in Congress.
“He’s the President of the United States and the former acting attorney general is about to testify under oath before the United States Congress and you tweet, ‘Ask Sally Yates under oath if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to the White House counsel,'” CNN’s John King said.
“I started, before I got into covering politics all the time, I used to cover the courts a lot. A lawyer would call that witness intimidation,” he added.
“Completely,” CNN reporter Dana Bash said in response. “Look, I think we have all been kind of desensitized in some way to his tweets and to his statements that are so out of the norm. This is beyond out of the norm. This is inappropriate. For the President of the United States to be this aggressive with somebody who used to work for him, who is coming before the United States Congress with sworn testimony hours later, is beyond the pale. It just is.”
King emphasized that it was unusual for Trump to make such a plea in public.
“To go public like this is striking,” he said.
Trump’s tweet about Yates came before she was expected to inform a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that is investigating Russian meddling in the U.S. election that she’d warned White House Counsel Don McGahn about former national security adviser Michael Flynn discussing U.S. sanctions with a Russian official.
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He is a bully who is used to getting his way. Yates is about to expose him for his dishonesty and hypocrisy. No one should be surprised at this. Maybe some day the GOP will grow a pair of balls and impeach him.
Either that or we work really hard and take back the House and Senate in 2018 so the Democrats can nail his orange ass.
I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before Richard Burr tells Trump to stop trying to influence the witness’s testimony with public threats.
After all, the Senate are the adults in the room, running the serious sober investigation.
ETA: My mistake. She isn’t even testifying before the SSIC today. This is a different subcommittee. Well, I’m sure Burr will invite her soon.
Ah yes the panel of enablers are shocked, shocked I tell you
You should have been outraged last summer
That wasn’t “beyond the pale” you twits?
Fucking hippocrites
Y’all (not you, the reader per se, but the collective goober y’all who elected Drumph) wanted an unfiltered tell it like it is President. That’s what we have. He doesn’t care if it’s legal or not for him to tweet this shit, he’s beyond the law. His attitude (on everything it seems) is “Oh, you can’t do that? Watch me!” Not a good trait for someone who is nominally the leader of the free world. Fucktarded hoofwanking bunglecunt comes to mind.
It’s witness intimidation, pure and simple. An old mob trick.
I won’t be surprised if Ms. Yates finds a dead canary next to her water glass at today’s hearing given how many in the senate are tied to the PeePee Crime Family.