'It's not going to mean that...the Republican senators are going to change camps. But they might conduct the trial in a slightly different way depending on whether or not there is a lot of pressure from the public,' Anne Kraatz said.
Anne Kraatz, a historian and expert in U.S. foreign policy, said the apparent spying on diplomat Marie Yovanovitch arranged by associates of President Donald Trump won't go over well with the public—at a time when approval of his impeachment remains stubbornly lackluster.
But new revelations this week painted a damaging picture of the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine. Lev Parnas, an associate of the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, gave House Democrats evidence that suggested Yovanovitch, a former ambassador to Ukraine, was surveilled and smeared by Trump associates when she got"in the way" of their efforts to pressure the country into investigating a potential political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
"That particular point of the ambassador, the American ambassador, being spied upon by Americans, I think, will sit very poorly with the American public," Kraatz said in an interview with France 24 on Friday. "It's not going to mean that...the Republican senators are going to change camps. But they might conduct the trial in a slightly different way, depending on whether or not there is a lot of pressure from the public," Kraatz said.
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