House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Trump is “scared” of the impeachment inquiry House Democrats launched last week, because he knows that a case can be made against him.
“I think the president knows the argument that can be made against him and he’s scared,” the California Democrat told ABC News on Wednesday.
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“And so he’s trying to divert attention from that,” she said.
Trump has railed against Democrats over the inquiry, which stems from a whistleblower complaint about the president’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the conversation, Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The former vice president is a leading contender to win the Democratic presidential nomination to take on Trump in the 2020 election.
Trump referred to Democrats as the “Do Nothing” party, accusing them of wasting their time on “BULLSHIT” earlier Wednesday.
The Do Nothing Democrats should be focused on building up our Country, not wasting everyone’s time and energy on BULLSHIT, which is what they have been doing ever since I got overwhelmingly elected in 2016, 223-306. Get a better candidate this time, you’ll need it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Pelosi whether she heard “fear” in Trump’s voice when the two spoke over the phone on Sept. 24 hours before she launched the impeachment inquiry.
“I saw the surprise in his voice that he didn’t understand that I thought what he did was wrong,” Pelosi said of Trump’s call with Ukraine. “That he was undermining our national security, that he was undermining our Constitution by his actions, and he was undermining the integrity of our elections. He just didn’t see it.”
