President Trump accused Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of hating the United States.
The president addressed Pelosi during his Louisiana rally on Friday night after railing against House Democrats’ “bullsh–t” impeachment inquiry.
“Nervous Nancy. I used to think she loves the country; she hates the country,” he said. “Nancy Pelosi hates the United States of America. She would not be doing this. Foreign people looking at us, they honestly think we are nuts. She was angry when she got to read the transcript. That is not what she was told. But she was stuck.”
He also slammed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his summation of the president’s July phone call with the leader of Ukraine, which was “at least in part parody.”
“Think of a guy who makes up a phone call,” Trump said. “I would have loved to see their faces. He goes before Congress and makes up the story of what I said. He made it up. It was fiction. Are you immune from something like that? That should be a crime.”
House Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry into Trump last month over his phone call with the foreign leader, during which he urged the country to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, the president’s potential 2020 general election rival, and his son Hunter for corruption.
The White House has since indicated it will not cooperate with the process, calling it “highly partisan and unconstitutional.”
