AFP, Washington :
Donald Trump faced calls from his own party to show more restraint on Twitter as the White House faced a storm of outrage on Sunday over the president revealing the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower who triggered his impeachment.
Trump has faced growing criticism since re-tweeting an attack that included the name of the reported CIA staffer at the heart of the Ukraine scandal – an act that could violate the whistleblower’s guaranteed anonymity under the law.
“If the president would tweet a little bit less, it wouldn’t cause brain damage. But the president does not have to take my advice, nor do I expect him to,” Republican Senator John Kennedy, a key Trump ally, told Fox News on Sunday. Trump is ending 2019 as the third president in US history to be impeached after pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a rival in his 2020 re-election bid.
The historic rebuke by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives for abuse of office and obstruction of Congress is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate in a trial expected to begin in January.
The president spent much of Friday amplifying pro-Trump and anti-Democrat tweets from suspicious-looking Twitter accounts at the start of what would become a weekend-long rant against the impeachment process.
Donald Trump faced calls from his own party to show more restraint on Twitter as the White House faced a storm of outrage on Sunday over the president revealing the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower who triggered his impeachment.
Trump has faced growing criticism since re-tweeting an attack that included the name of the reported CIA staffer at the heart of the Ukraine scandal – an act that could violate the whistleblower’s guaranteed anonymity under the law.
“If the president would tweet a little bit less, it wouldn’t cause brain damage. But the president does not have to take my advice, nor do I expect him to,” Republican Senator John Kennedy, a key Trump ally, told Fox News on Sunday. Trump is ending 2019 as the third president in US history to be impeached after pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, a rival in his 2020 re-election bid.
The historic rebuke by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives for abuse of office and obstruction of Congress is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate in a trial expected to begin in January.
The president spent much of Friday amplifying pro-Trump and anti-Democrat tweets from suspicious-looking Twitter accounts at the start of what would become a weekend-long rant against the impeachment process.
