With former acting Attorney General Sally Yates expected to testify Monday afternoon before a Senate subcommittee, President Donald Trump posed his own question about classified information being leaked to the newspapers.
The query was enough to send CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin into a lather, claiming Trump crossed the line of expected behavior from a president, who was “threatening a witness.”
Now that’s one heckuva reach!
“It just shows how much the norms of behavior have changed,” Toobin said Monday. “The idea of the President of the United States essentially threatening a witness, he’s basically accusing her of leaking, we have never had that before.”
Never mind that Trump simply asked a question on social media.
“We’ve never had presidents who did this kind of thing,” Toobin added. “The idea that the president — the guy who’s in charge of the Justice Department — is threatening a witness is really kind of disturbing.”
And if he’s disturbed by that, it’s almost a guarantee Toobin isn’t going to like a rather humorous tweet from a parody account of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer:
*Editor’s Note: Original post made a boneheaded mistake of identifying a parody account as belonging to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and has been edited accordingly.
Hopefully Sally Yates' Senate testimony will finally shed some light on how Putin convinced Hillary to ignore Wisconsin
— Sean Spicier (@sean_spicier) May 8, 2017
The left is banking on Yates testimony to rejuvenate the stalled narrative about so-called collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russia, as one social media user suggested:
https://twitter.com/Mags661/status/861586516451012609
*Editor’s Note: Original post made a boneheaded mistake of identifying a parody account as belonging to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and has been edited accordingly.
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