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‘Extraordinarily Poor Judgment’: Trump’s Real-Time Witness Intimidation Of Yovanovitch Goes Down Like Lead Balloon
Donald Trump made the extraordinarily ill-advised decision to tweet derisively about Marie Yovanovitch while she was testifying on Capitol Hill Friday.
During the infamous July 25 phone call with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, the US president described Yovanovitch as "bad news" and predicted she was "going to go through some things".
By that time, Yovanovitch had already been through "some things", where that means Rudy Giuliani and his now-jailed fixers Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had engaged
It’s time to shut the freak down and stop the bullshit today: Take trump twitter account away now!
See: “The court relied for that order on the authority conferred in 18 U.S.C. § 1514, which permits the government to apply for a temporary restraining order or a protective order “prohibiting harassment of a victim or witness in a Federal criminal case.” § 1514(a) (temporary restraining order), (b) (protective order). The statute defines the term “harassment” to mean “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that – (A) causes substantial emotional distress in such person; and (B) serves no legitimate purpose.” § 1514(c)(1). The term “course of conduct” is defined as “a series of acts over a period of time, however short, indicating a continuity of purpose.” § 1514(c)(2). ”
https://casetext.com/case/us-v-lewis-107