Donald Trump don’t want’m….
Emboldened by his come from behind job grab from a highly favoured Hillary Clinton?
The guy doesn’t trust anyone and feels he can do the impeachment thing on his own….
His ‘trump’ card?
The US Senate….
With confidence that they, the jury for impeachment have his back, or actually are too scared NOT to?
He’s ‘going it alone’ again….
Of course he doesn’t remember ALL the other stuff he’s done since the election that hasn’t worked, eh?
President Trump on Friday dismissed the need for a bolstered team to defend him against House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
“Here’s the thing. I don’t have teams. Everyone’s talking about teams. I’m the team. I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters outside the White House before leaving for an event in South Carolina.
The comment came as part of a lengthy rant against the impeachment inquiry, which Trump derided as a “phony deal” focused on a “perfect” call he had with the Ukrainian president. He went on to say that if anything came of this inquiry, he thinks it could plunge the country into economic downturn.
“I will say this: If anything ever happened with this phony witch hunt that the Democrats are doing … I really believe you’d have a recession, depression the likes of which this country hasn’t seen,” Trump said, questioning how Democrats could impeach “one of the most successful presidents.”
The president’s tangent started with a question about reports that the Department of Justice has opened a criminal inquiry into how its own probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election began.
House Democrats are pursuing an impeachment inquiry into allegations that Trump abused his office by pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate a domestic political rival. Several former administration officials have testified thus far, with some giving damaging testimony against the president.
Trump’s insistence that he does not need additional help fighting the impeachment inquiry comes as many in the Republican Party have expressed exasperation with the lack of a coordinated White House message on the topic.
The White House has repeatedly downplayed the need for a so-called war room to fight impeachment by maintaining that Trump did nothing wrong….
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If impeached by the House, look for Trump to pressure Republican Senators to gather en masse , announce that the behavior complained of is not “impeachable,” and that they will not vote to remove him from office.
If he can get sufficient number to do so which, based on Graham’s resolution which was signed by all but threee Republican Senators,is Likely, then the impeachment would become a nullity.
Contrary to comments here about what I have allegedly said ,my position is and remains clear…
No way No how will anywhere near enough Republican Senators vote to remove Trump from office ,regardless of the evidence presented against him.
McSally, Gardner and Tillis–3 at risk GOP Senators who caved in on Graham’s resolution.
On WETA-PBS’s Washington Week last night, one of the reporters said that after failing twice with much stronger motions, Lindsey Graham finally wrote something so anodyne (about process rather than substance) that he could get a decent number of GOP signatures, and a manageable minimum of hold-outs.
I can’t find a written transcript but you can watch the A/V episode here:
https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/episode/latest-developments-impeachment-inquiry