Rep. Devin Nunes said Thursday that President Trump’s fight against impeachment is an example of how he fights back against the media and that it’s the “most important” thing he has ever done.
“The most important thing the president has done, though all the things he’s done are very important — but he’s finally outed the media,” Nunes told Fox News.
“The media in this town has been corrupt. It took somebody like Trump to bring them out of their shell, so, now, they will just openly go out and tweet about it late at night. They get drunk and send drunk tweets out. They are vicious to him and Republicans.”
The California congressman’s comments come days after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump of two articles of impeachment filed by the House in December.
Trump took a defiant victory lap during a Thursday press conference.
“They took nothing; they took a phone call that was a totally appropriate call,” the president said in the East Room of the White House. “I call it a perfect call because it was, and they brought me to the final stages of impeachment, but, now, we have that gorgeous word. I never thought a word would sound so good. It’s called total acquittal. Total acquittal.”
Nunes also mentioned former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, a central figure in the impeachment case against the president, in his interview.
“There’s a reason why she got fired,” Nunes said. “This is one of the things we could never really get out because we couldn’t bring in witnesses, but, you know, we had people that we were ready to bring in that said that she was anti-Trump, espousing anti-Trump administration views while she was ambassador to Ukraine. That’s her boss.”
Yovanovitch published an op-ed in response to Trump’s impeachment acquittal earlier this week.
