Oh man. Fox News’ @BretBaier acknowledges that Trump’s tweet in real time during Yovanovitch’s testimony could be viewed as witness tampering, adds a possible article of impeachment, and that Republicans will have to deal with that.
And now Chris Wallace says if viewers were not moved during Yovanovitch’s testimony, “you don’t have a pulse.”
Wallace also reaffirms Baier’s point about witness tampering and that overall it was “powerful testimony.”
Some of the other Fox News contributors are trying to deflect the import of Yovanovitch’s testimony but if Trump is watching FNC he’s going to blow a gasket.
And now @johnrobertsFox echoes both Baier and Wallace from the White House lawn and says flat-out that Trump’s tweet was “not particularly well-advised.”
I want to be clear here that some of the Fox News contributors are also trying to minimize the impact of the testimony and criticize Schiff. But even Ken Starr is acknowledging that Yovanovitch has been a strong witness and that Trump’s real-time tweet was galactically stupid.
Outside the hearings, @ChadPergram reports that a senior GOP Hill source said about Trump’s tweet: “we didn’t need that.” Goes on to say that it complicates GOP lines of attack.
It’s hard to put into words the tone that @marthamaccallum and @DanaPerino have used to describe Marie Yovanovitch as a “fine woman” before they try to undercut the import of her testimony.
And @AndrewCMcCarthy says that the GOP better offer real evidence that Yovanovitch was running down Trump because otherwise her testimony will be extremely powerful.
And now my JetBlue flight has ended. Follow @emilynussbaum for more Fox News observations.
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That moment when you get back on Twitter and see @nntaleb has unblocked you but also has not changed his intellectual hygiene over the past half-decade.
Here are his tweets. LOL at bragging that six months after Ebola he had the unique foresight to warn about a global pandemic. Glad we agree about @MilenaRodban though!
I do wish Nassim read a little more. He might like the chapters in here on the for-profit part of the ideas industry. And he’s an outstanding thought leader in every sense of that term’s meaning. amazon.com/Ideas-Industry…
No no no this can’t be right I was assured by so many hawks that if the United States exited the JCPOA and imposed crippling sanctions on Iran then everything would work itself out.
It’s quite something that the collective assessment in @wrightr’s story is that Iran has not only progressed in its nuclear program but in the other areas (ballistic missiles, links to regional proxies) sanctions reimposition was supposed to thwart. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
The best part of this is imagining the 30-minute explanation someone will need to provide Trump about what he said.
For this to have happened minions like @realLizUSA either didn’t understand what Trump was saying or understood it but were too scared to staff him properly.