Offering his own take on five long days of public hearings, President Donald Trump brushed off the impeachment inquiry as \u201ctotal nonsense\u201d on Friday and bad-mouthed a number of US diplomats who testified to Congress about his Ukraine pressure campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In one breath, Trump said House Democrats looked like \u201cfools\u201d during the hearings on Capitol Hill. In another, he offered a window into his political strategy ahead of an expected House vote to impeach him. If that happens, the Senate would hold a trial on whether to oust him from office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump also repeated claims that Obama administration officials spied on his campaign and underscored the need to keep Republicans unified against impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen support in the Republican party like we do right now,\u201d he said. In a 57-minute, animated phone interview on \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d Trump said he did not expect to be impeached. But he added that if the House did vote to impeach him, he would welcome a trial in the Republican-led Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFrankly, I want a trial,\u201d he said. A trial, he said, would give Republicans a chance to question Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led the hearings as chairman of the House intelligence committee. Procedures for a Senate trial still are being worked out, but Republicans may well be hesitant to adopt Trump\u2019s idea of turning a lawmaker into a witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s professed confidence came after impeachment witnesses testified under oath that the President withheld aid from Ukraine to press the country to investigate his political rivals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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