Trump Blasts Impeachment Inquiry, Calling It A ‘Kangaroo Court’

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President Trump has slammed the impeachment inquiry against him as a “disgrace” and “kangaroo court”

He also blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as ‘grossly incompetent’ for allowing House lawmakers to focus on the ongoing inquiry instead of voting on a revamped North American free trade deal that was brokered by the White House last year.

Press TV reports: Trump made the comments on Wednesday at the start of a Cabinet meeting as lawmakers in the House of Representatives heard testimony from two government officials who listened in on the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of the impeachment probe.

The US House Intelligence Committee resumed the public impeachment hearings on Tuesday.

The Republican president called Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “highly overrated” and “incompetent” for not passing the so-called US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.

“The woman is highly overrated,” Trump said. “We can’t get USMCA approved because Nancy Pelosi is grossly incompetent.”

Trump said he watched some of the day’s impeachment testimony from US Army officer Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine specialist, who says Trump inappropriately pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son’s dealings in Ukraine.

At the Cabinet meeting, the president dismissed Vindman’s testimony, and praised Republican lawmakers for “killing it”. Trump said, “I don’t know Vindman, I never heard of him.”

House Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry against Trump in September after a whistleblower alleged the Republican president pressured Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son Hunter, who had served as a director for Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Democrats are looking into whether Trump abused his power by withholding $391 million in US security aid to Ukraine as leverage to pressure Kiev to conduct an investigation that would benefit him politically.

Republicans have consistently criticized the Democratic-led impeachment investigation by saying that witnesses did not have firsthand knowledge of Trump’s role in trying to persuade Ukraine to investigate Biden.

10 Comments

  1. It is a Kangaroo Court. Powerful politicians have used their influence to dig up dirt on opponents since the days of Jefferson and Adams. In this case Biden is far more dirtier than Trump ever could be. This isn’t 1974. This isn’t the “crime of the century” the MSM keeps rambling on about. Big yawn.

  2. I will probably Not vote for Trump in 2020 because of his choice of race based sacred cows enabling cultural marxism to get an even deeper stronghold into what was left of our society. Evidence shows he and his administration are very two faced and IMO don’t legitimately follow through on election promises; maybe because he did not know what he could get away with but he did make major changes in some other directions that we could pretend were a benefit to We the People. What should really concern us even more than Trump’s shortcomings but what these nasty critters in congress, that pretend to be against Trump but are really all about the communist overthrow to Our Nation; they are public servants, not our rulers; quit calling politicians and the media the Elite already. They are killing us people… zero hedge report blocked: us-relations-china-were-just-destroyed-and-nothing-will-ever-be-same-again

  3. ‘Nasty’ is feeling relieved that she was able to secure her order from Amazon before they took their “Daddy’s Little Slut” shirts off the market.

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