President Trump and his top spokeswoman on Friday dismissed the idea that House Democrats will be able to impeach him, and said he’s been too successful for that to happen.
“How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?” Trump asked on Twitter.
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How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2019
Trump tweeted just moments after White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to respond to freshman House Democrat Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who said in a video “we’re gonna go in and impeach the motherf–ker.”
Sanders ignored the vulgarity of the comment, and instead said Democrats would have a hard time impeaching a president who has done so much.
“You’re not going to impeach this president when he’s had two of the most successful years that any president has had in modern history,” she said on Fox News.
“The only reason they want to come after this president is because they know that they can’t beat him,” she added. “They can’t beat him when it comes to a policy debate, and they’re not going to beat him when it comes to 2020.”
Sanders said Democrats are angry at Trump because they have “no solutions for America.” She said instead of threatening impeachment, they should try to work with Trump.
“I hope that some of these new faces that campaigned on being different and being a change will actually come here to work with the president, work for solutions, and actually look to help the American people, not to help their own political careers,” she said.
Republicans and Democrats will get a chance at working together Friday morning, when congressional leaders meet with Trump to try to negotiate and end to the partial government shutdown.
However, both sides are dug in. Democrats have said they will not approve any spending bill that includes money for Trump’s border wall, and Trump has said he will not sign any spending bill to reopen closed parts of the government without that funding.
