President Trump bemoaned the Democratic Party, saying lawmakers are wielding impeachment as a political cudgel during a call into Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
“I think they’ve lost their minds, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said about Democrats during a Monday interview with the Rush Limbaugh Show. “You look at the impeachment hoax, and they have nothing. They have nothing.”
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The president went on to accuse House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of withholding articles of impeachment from the Senate in order to affect the 2020 presidential election.
“I think what they’re trying to do is affect the election illegally,” Trump said. “They are a joke. They are not crimes. There is nothing there. They found nothing. We went through two years of a Mueller report.”
Trump said that the founders of the country would not approve of the way Pelosi and Democrats have handled his impeachment.
“[Pelosi] doesn’t want to get a vote because how could anybody possibly — it’s totally fraudulent. This is not what they had in mind,” he said.
Pelosi, 79, has been withholding articles of impeachment since Trump was impeached on two articles because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has signaled he may not call any witnesses. Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that he would testify before the Senate in the impeachment trial if he is subpoenaed.
