the “threat” is it will deter future witnesses due to intimidation.
At least that’s now the narrative.
So what if he had said the very same thing at 6 pm? How does that affect anything? Future witnesses could read it then, too?
Saying Yovanovitch was a bad ambassador is now a “threat.” Democrats made it up.
Staring an opinion is not a crime. Yovanovitch is entitled to hers but the President just crossed all the lines stating his own view.
Oh my god, he really stepped in it, as the Freeper pearl clutching crowd rush to declaim to us!