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On Monday in the hours before former acting Attorney General Sally Yates’ testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, the president engaged in a predictable tweetstorm, complete with an attack on the “fake news.” It’s entirely possible that one of those Monday-morning tweets constituted felonious witness tampering. Here’s the tweet in question:
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Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump
Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Counsel.
10:43 AM - 8 May 2017
- https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=861592420043157504
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Translation: That’s some really nice testimony ya got there, Yates: Shame if something were to happen to it. And by “it,” I mean “you.”
Nevertheless, Trump tried to intimidate Yates. Based on her testimony, it doesn’t appear to have worked. But he tried. Title 18, Chapter 73, Section 1512, Part (b) states quite clearly: “Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”
Did Donald Trump try to threaten Sally Yates on Twitter? If so, he committed a felony
