{"id":132061,"date":"2019-11-16T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=132061"},"modified":"2019-11-16T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:21:12","slug":"schiffs-kangaroo-court-trump-has-no-other-way-to-defend-himself-against-deep-state-coup-but-to-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=132061","title":{"rendered":"SCHIFF&#8217;S KANGAROO COURT: Trump has no other way to defend himself against <i>Deep State<\/i> coup but to tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gregg Jarrett on Trump tweet attacking Yovanovitch during hearing: \u2018He had no choice&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_132063\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GREGG-CROP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132063\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GREGG-CROP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GREGG-CROP.jpg 696w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GREGG-CROP-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Critics cry &#8216;witness intimidation&#8217; over Trump tweets on impeachment<br \/>Reaction and analysis from Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett and Trump 2020 campaign adviser Jenna Ellis.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Joshua Nelson | Fox News<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0criticized former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/the-impeachment-hearing-witnesses-who-is-marie-yovanovitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marie Yovanovitch<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter during her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-impeachment-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impeachment inquiry<\/a>\u00a0testimony Friday, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarret said\u00a0that the commander-in-chief &#8220;had no choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cJust look at what happened today: Cross-examination shut down, Republicans can\u2019t call witnesses,&#8221;\u00a0Jarrett said on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cHannity<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;The president has no ability to defend himself so he goes over everybody\u2019s heads to the American people and social media and issues a tweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cIt is not \u2018witness-intimidation,\u2019\u201d added Jarrett, who pointed out that the president was within his\u00a0rights to criticize Yovanovitch during her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/yovanovitch-to-face-gop-grilling-as-second-day-of-public-impeachment-hearings-begin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public testimony<\/a>\u00a0before the House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/president-trump-marie-yovanovitch-impeachment-inquiry-twitter-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TRUMP ATTACKS MARIE YOVANOVITCH DURING IMPEACHMENT HEARING, SAYS EVERYWHERE SHE WENT &#8216;TURNED BAD&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted that everywhere Yovanovitch\u00a0went as a diplomat had &#8220;turned bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She started off in Somalia, how did that go?&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President [Volodymyr Zelensky] spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a U.S. President&#8217;s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. 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. It is a U.S. President\u2019s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1195356198347956224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., read the tweet to Yovanovitch during the hearing and accused the president of &#8220;witness intimidation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yovanovitch is a career foreign service officer with more than 30 years at the State Department, having also served in Somalia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett explained further that\u00a0physically harming or bribing a witness or coercing a witness to lie would constitute witness intimidation under law, not criticizing them on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett also called the impeachment inquiry a \u201cvaudeville\u00a0act with Charlie Chaplin\u00a0at the helm, aka\u00a0Adam Schiff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News\u2019 Julie Musto contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/gregg-jarrett-on-president-trump-attacking-marie-yovanovitch-during-impeachment-hearing-he-had-no-choice\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/gregg-jarrett-on-president-trump-attacking-marie-yovanovitch-during-impeachment-hearing-he-had-no-choice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Jarrett on Trump tweet attacking Yovanovitch during hearing: \u2018He had no choice&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132064,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132061\/revisions\/132064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}