Trump denies witness tampering; State official says president asked about ‘investigation’ into Bidens

Washington Post logoPresident Trump dismissed criticism Friday that he had tried to intimidate a witness in the impeachment inquiry, saying a disparaging tweet about former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch as she testified before a House panel was “free speech.”

“I have the right to speak,” Trump said at an afternoon event in the Oval Office.

Trump’s tweet — in which he said everything “turned bad” in various places Yovanovitch was posted as a diplomat — came as she testified that she was the target of a “campaign of disinformation” that involved Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.

View the complete November 15 article by John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz and Michael Brice-Saddler on The Washington Post  website here.