President Trump said impeachment could help him win reelection on the same day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into him.
Calling it a “continuation of the witch hunt,” Trump said Tuesday during a meeting at the United Nations that Democrats were neglecting other legislative priorities to push for impeachment.
“The country’s doing the best it’s ever done, and I just heard she’d like to impeach,” Trump said. “If [Pelosi] does that, they all say that’s a positive for me in the election. You could also say, ‘Who needs it. It’s bad for the country.’”
“Then they wonder why they don’t get gun legislation done. Then they wonder why they don’t get drug prices lowered. Because all they do is talk nonsense. No more infrastructure bills. No more anything,” he added.
The move by Pelosi and House Democrats comes after a controversial whistleblower complaint to the intelligence community inspector general. It is alleged that Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky multiple times to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and his ties to an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.
Pelosi’s announcement comes after the Trump administration said Tuesday that it would release the transcript of the phone call in question.
“By the way, she hasn’t even seen the phone call. The phone call was perfect,” Trump said.
More than 170 Democrats of the 235-member caucus in the House now favor some sort of impeachment action, a number that has grown since the whistleblower controversy.
