President Donald Trump raged against impeachment Wednesday, tweeting that the process was “BULLSHIT” and calling for the lead investigator in Congress to be charged with treason.
Trump — accused of leaning on Ukraine s president to dig up dirt on one of his main 2020 election rivals — fired the swearword at opposition Democrats.
Adam Schiff, the Democrat leading the impeachment probe in the lower chamber of Congress, told reporters there is a “real sense of urgency” to press forward.
Trump fought back with language that would once have been inconceivable for a president, including his claim late Tuesday on Twitter that this is “not an impeachment, it is a COUP.”
While meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the White House, Trump said Schiff was “a low life” who should be arrested for “treason.”
Trump insists that he did nothing wrong in a phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and on Wednesday got support from Russia s President Vladimir Putin, who said he saw “nothing compromising” in the conversation.
Given Trump s controversial history with Putin, it was unlikely that the Kremlin leader s backing would do much to calm waters back in Washington.
After keeping pronouncements mostly to Twitter over the last week, Trump used his press appearance with Niinisto to let rip in front of the cameras, calling his treatment “a disgrace.”
