House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers ‘have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame,’ Trump said
President Donald Trump laid out a blistering attack in real time Wednesday against House Democrats’ vote to impeach him, saying the party showed “deep hatred and disdain for the American voter” and would pay for it in the 2020 election. “This lawless, partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democratic party,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in Battle Creek, Michigan, as the final tally of a vote to impeach him was being counted on the House floor.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic lawmakers “have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame,” he added. Back in Washington, the House adopted two articles of impeachment against the president as he spoke at the rally, offering an unprecedented split-screen spectacle of the political strife dividing the nation. Underscoring the political reckoning for Trump, he spent the evening in Battle Creek — a Republican stronghold that helped him win the otherwise Democratic state in 2016.
The setting offered the president a receptive audience to make his rebuttal. When a protester disrupted his speech, the crowd booed loudly and the president faulted the event’s security guards for not being more physical in removing the woman, who he called “disgusting.” “You got to get a little bit stronger than that, folks,” Trump said.
The first portion of the speech touched on a range of issues unrelated to impeachment. As votes were counted on the first of two articles of impeachment — that Donald Trump abused the power of his office — he was praising F-35 fighter pilots. When the House adopted the article, he was assailing the “crooked media.” The frustration Trump has displayed reflects the potential harm impeachment does to his re-election campaign, which will be the first in postwar American history waged by an impeached president.
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