WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on Friday testified to the House Intelligence Committee in an ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
Yovanovitch said she was targeted with a "smear campaign" advanced by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other allies of the president.
"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad...the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him," Trump tweeted during her testimony.
When asked about Trump's tweet, Yovanovitch said, "It's very intimidating."
"I think the effect is to be intimidating," she added. "I actually think that where I've served over the years, I and others demonstrably have made things better."
"We take this kind of witness intimidation and obstruction of inquiry very seriously," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in the recess.
In a quick response, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham dismissed Democrats' claim that the president's tweet amounted to witness intimidation.
"The tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the President's opinion, which he is entitled to. This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process -- or to put it more accurately, a totally illegitimate, charade stacked against the President," Grisham said in a statement.
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