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LAST UPDATE | 6 Feb 2020
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has slammed those who put him and his family through his impeachment “ordeal” describing them as “evil”.
In his first press conference since his acquittal, Trump addressed a friendly crowd who applauded during multiple parts of his speech.
He said: “It’s been a very unfair situation. Over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt – it started from the day we came down in the elevator and it never really stopped. We’ve been going through it for three years.
“It was evil, corrupt, it was dirty cops, leakers and liars. This should never happen to another president ever.
“I don’t know if other presidents would be able to take it, some people said no they wouldn’t have. It was a disgrace.
“This is not a speech, it’s a celebration. We have something that worked out. We went through hell, unfairly. We did nothing wrong.”
Trump said that at the start of his presidency, it was “all about Russia, Russia, Russia. It was all bullshit”.
“We thought after the election it would stop, but it just started. It was tremendous corruption,” he added.
Venting for more than an hour, Trump railed against the impeachment process and ticked off names of the “vicious and mean” people he felt had wronged him: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and former FBI Director James Comey. But then he revelled in the 52-48 verdict on the abuse of power article of impeachment delivered by the Republican-controlled Senate the day before.
“Now we have that gorgeous word. I never thought it would sound so good,” Trump said. “It’s called total acquittal.”
Donald J. Trump / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter / Twitter
As Trump spoke, the White House East Room was packed with hundreds of supporters. Among them: Republican senators who voted to acquit him, Cabinet members and staunch House allies.
‘Warriors’
Trump’s at-times angry speech pushed beyond his State of the Union address two nights earlier, during which he stuck to the script and made no mention of impeachment. Not using a teleprompter this time, Trump delivered rambling remarks saluting “a great group of warriors,” name-checking GOP lawmakers who had backed him both in the Capitol and on television.
He declared that the Republican Party had never been more unified and predicted momentum from the acquittal would carry him to reelection this November. But he also predicted that he may have to fend off another impeachment challenge, perhaps for something as trivial as jaywalking.
“We’ll probably have to do it again because these people have gone stone-cold crazy,” the president said.
Earlier, speaking from a stage where he was joined by congressional leaders, including Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led the impeachment charge against him, Trump shattered the usual veneer of bipartisanship at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.
“As everybody knows, my family, our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people,” Trump said at the annual event.
“They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation,” said Trump, again holding up newspapers with banner “ACQUITTED” headlines.
Donald J. Trump / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter / Twitter
His remarks were especially jarring and whiplash-inducing coming after a series of scripture-quoting speeches, including a keynote address by Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and president of a conservative think tank, who had bemoaned a “crisis of contempt and polarisation” in the nation and urged those gathered to ”love your enemies”.
“I don’t know if I agree with you,” Trump said as he took the microphone, and then he proceeded to demonstrate it.
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” he said in an apparent reference to Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a longtime Trump critic who cited his faith in becoming the only Republican to vote for Trump’s removal.
“Nor do I like people who say ‘I pray for you’ when you know that is not so,’” he said, in a reference to Pelosi, who has offered that message for the president when the two leaders have sparred publicly.
The House speaker shook her head at various points during Trump’s remarks, but did not appear to interact with Trump personally. Earlier she had offered a prayer for the poor and the persecuted.
At the White House later, Trump defended his prayer breakfast attacks on Pelosi, saying “I had Nancy Pelosi sitting four seats away and I’m saying things a lot of people wouldn’t have said. I meant every word.”
Pelosi said that Trump’s remarks were “so completely inappropriate, especially at a prayer breakfast”. She took particular issue with his swipe at Romney’s faith and said that yes, she does pray for the president.
The only contrition Trump offered was to his own family, saying, “I want to apologise to my family for having them go through a phony rotten deal.”
Instead, Trump defended his call with Ukraine’s president — again calling it “perfect”— that Democrats used as the starting point to launch impeachment proceedings against the president for pressuring a foreign government to investigate a political foe.
With reporting by Garreth MacNamee
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Well done President Trump it’s great to see righthous people win over the dishonest Democrats.
@Michael Maher: Think you mean “ self righteous “ there Micheal
@Michael Maher: righteous
@Tracy Moore: Yes that is right, Thank you.
@Michael Maher: Have what politic View you wish, but there is absolutely no denying that the man you seem to worship is complete human waste.
If you fail to see this, you need to look deep inside and question your moral compass.
I see no good in this man, and I see everything that’s wrong with humanity.
History will judge.
@Michael Maher: nutcase
@Michael Maher: ahh muchael you’ve brightened my day thanks for the laugh.
@Michael Maher: still impeached though.
@Michael Maher: As the man said he could shot someone and nobody would bat an eyelid from your type……delusional brain washed sheep.
@Michael Maher: absolutely and the look on plastic Nancy’s face says it all
@Michael Maher: don’t take the bait Michael. People on here can be very nasty if you don’t propagate their extreme agenda.
I’m very encouraged by the enthusiasm of the Trump campaign now.
Historic employment levels.
Manufacturing is booming.
Economic growth hit 4.2% in the last quarter.
Household income has hit the highest levels ever!
African American / Hispanic American /Asian American employment has hit the lowest levels ever!
Women’s employment is the highest for 65 years.
Helped win the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
It goes on and on.
There’s a lot of bitter people out there. And sometimes they are led by extreme left media feeds like, overpaid opinionated people on the RTE. If people really looked at Donald Trump & especially his results, the success speaks for itself!
@Dom Layzell: and he helped win the 2028 Olympics. We underestimate this man.
@Michael Maher: get a life you far righter
@Dom Layzell: Hear hear. The TDS sufferers will just ignore these facts and go by the previous hearsay lies they feed on. There will be another bizarre attempt to discredit Trump before the elections. The Dems are crazy.
@Radek: all lives matter Radek
@Michael Maher: Self righteous
@BOH®: There is no need for Democrats to do anything.
Donald Trump discredits the United States , it’s people and the Office of the President each and every day …. all by himself.
In the end the American people will act as the rightful impeachment jurors next November … and I’m very confident they will vote him of office..
Not because of anyone thing ….. now even people who voted for him … “ For Change “ .. are simply feed-up of Trump and his antics and are simply exhausted due to Twitter Fatigue..
Of course he has core Base who will basically follow him over a cliff but the majority of people and even die hard Republicans want him gone because he has betrayed their principles.
So despite his economic achievements he has never broken through the 50% approval rating..
@Dom Layzell: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
@XvSv: Again, a typical TDS sufferer that just ignores facts and rants in about how the Orange Man is bad.
Blah blah blah. Are you leftie loons ever tired of being wrong?
@BOH®: I think you reflect on your comment. Just a Donald Trump cannot debate the issues with people with disagree with him he like you you just did play the man rather the ball by attacking the individual. Believe me I’m far from being part of the looney left. I didn’t refer to as Orange Man you did.
My Wife is US citizen and many of our extended family & friends would be Republicans .. and I can assure you many of them have had enough of Donald J Trump.
He has betrayed many of political principles of Republican Party ; #1 issue being Fiscally Responsible. [Fact :: Trump has exploded the Budget Deficit to 2 Trillion Dollars, whereas Obama reduced it by 1 Trillion ]. So I know Trump and his supporters don’t like dealing in the facts but there for all to see if care to see them.
@XvSv: Most Donald Trump’s supporter base in the Rust Belt states of the North Eastern USA were in fact White working class Democrats ..
However most these folks are starting to realise Trump only really cares about the top 1%. [Fact 81% of Tax benefits he enacted in 2017 benefited the top 1% . ]
He constantly goes on about the Stock Market Indices… Yes it’s done great , but not as good under Obama in relative terms, but 41% of the US pop don’t own a single stock or a 401K pension plan… so so what..
So I’m pretty confident that when 2020 is concluded he will be voted out of office
Donald J Trump will enter the history books as:-
12th One Term US President , the first One Term President of 21st century ..
3rd US President to have being impeached by the US Congress
@XvSv:
You forgot to add, first POTUS to be impeached, Acquitted and then re-elected. Fixed that for you. You might as well throw out that crystal ball lad.
No I agree with him.. it wouldn’t have been done to another president because by a long shot Donald Trump has to be the most deceitful, self serving and toxic narcissist that ever held the office. Vote him out.
@Tracy Moore: and surrounded by top notch advisors from both old and new schools .
All I hear when he speaks is “WAAAAAH WAAAAAAAH WAAAAAH BUT I WANT AN ICE CREAM!!!! (Stamps feet in floor) WAAAAAAHHHHHHH”…….
@Jeremy Finn: specsavers are doing a discount on hearing aids, clearly you’re having difficulty?
@Jeremy Finn: agreed
“I don’t know if other presidents would have been able to take it, some people have said they wouldn’t.” In case anybody was wondering,, that was trump telling us that he is the best most brilliant absolutely super dooper president of all time,, we know Donald,, we know,, it’s not the first time you told us…..Jesus wept!!!:(
@devils avacado: Unmatched wisdom …
@devils avacado: in my lifetime Obama, war! Bush 2, war! Clinton, war, Bush 1, war!
The Donald, a few good hits but no war!
Hello?
@Dom Layzell:
@devils avacado: The most bestest…
Average unemployment rate during first 3 years:
Reagan – 9%
Bush Sr – 5.9%
Clinton – 6.2%
Bush Jr – 5.5%
Obama – 9.3%
Trump – 3.5%
Trump has broke a 50 year low & set record lows for African Americans, Hispanics, & Asians.
This is what happens when a businessman runs the show.
@Punters Pal: If we’re gonna be getting into stats…
Satisfaction with issues: Now: Jan.2017
State of US Economy: 68%. 46%
Security from terrorism: 68%. 50%
Military Strength/Prepardness. 81%. 66%
State of Race Relations. 36%. 22%
Policies to Reduce/control crime 47%. 38%
Gallup poll January 2-15
@Burn_the_Witch: Apologies, it didn’t look like that when I typed it out. Row on the right is Now, Row on the left is when he came into office, lest there be any confusion.
@Punters Pal: Trump inherited a decent economy that continues to be decent and he has managed to avoid tipping it into a recession so far, thankfully.Low employment rate,decent wage growth,solid corporate earnings and a booming stock market are ALL artifacts of a long expansion and not because of a stable genius business man in the whitehouse as much as he’d like you to believe. But he’ll crow til the sun comes up to make you swallow it. Growth has been consistent since before 2016 and unemployment has been falling consistently also. Remarkable that voters seem to credit Trump for just keeping the status quo.On the contrary Obama actually averted a depression when he was in office.
@Punters Pal:
He is doing well – but of course being Trump he over eggs it and exaggerates – he isn’t doing nearly as well as Bill Clinton actually and his claims of ‘best ever’ are actually BS.
for balance…..
But where Trump goes too far is in touting this economy as the “best ever” and trying to portray the end of the Obama era as dire and himself as the hero flying in on the Trump jet to save the day. He has taken steps such as tax cuts to keep the economy growing and increase competitiveness, but he’s also inflicted pain. His tariffs have hurt U.S. manufacturing and agriculture. And his tax cuts and increased government spending have added substantially to the national debt.
Consider economic growth. Last year, the U.S. economy grew 2.3 percent — about average for this expansion and well below the 4 percent level Trump promised. So far in Trump’s term, growth is averaging 2.5 percent. That’s higher than under Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush, but much slower than the averages for Clinton and Ronald Reagan.
@Punters Pal: because of obama
@Burn_the_Witch: I think you got it right fist time
@Tracy Moore: Absolutely agree Tracy.
When Obama came to power in Jan 2009 at height of biggest global economic crisis since 1929.
Unemployment was over 10% and NYSE Index was below 6000pts. And besides the collapse in Banking sector the Car Industry was tethering on the edge of collapse .
Obama fought against the Republicans to support / bail-out the big 3 Automotive Companies this 100,000s of well paid jobs . He policy helped transform the industry ….Trump another’s argued it should have being let fail …
When Obama left office he had presided over one greatest periods of growth since WWII, unemployment was >5% and NYSE Index was at 18000 PTS….. 12000pt gain…
So it’s a complete lie when Trump states he handed a basket case economy … the US economy was already booming.
@Punters Pal: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
@Dave Hammond: And look at how US debt is ballooning!! https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Haha. His kids are making a fortune out of his presidency and Hunter Biden should be investigated? You couldn’t make it up
@Red wine and chocolate cake: in fairness a guy getting 50k per month who doesn’t have the local language or relevant work experience who happens to be the son of the vice president merits investigation.
@Seamus Mac: but he didn’t so much care if there was an investigation. He just wanted one announced. There was not a scintilla of evidence of wrongdoing, just like most of Trumps other blatant lies
@Red wine and chocolate cake: dunno about that, theres a list of Biden family members who have done very well out of Creepy Joe.
@Vote4Pedro: names, indiscretions days etc ?
@Vote4Pedro: drill down on the easy unsubstantiated allegations and what do you get. Tumbleweed and crickets
@Vote4Pedro: ???????
He’s absolutely right, The Dems are a basket case of a political party.
@Raven: again
Well no better buachaill to know about evil and corruption.
What. A. Pig.
@Mel Fitzpatrick:
Projection much?
@Mel Fitzpatrick: Funny thing is Mel, if you put a big orange wig on, you’d actually be able to do a surprisingly good impression of him. But looks and size have nothing to do with anything, so you won’t see me making any porkie type quips about you or anyone else. It’s not nice, is it?
@Burn_the_Witch: Your misinterpretation of my use of the word “pig” is ironic…
@Burn_the_Witch: you sure are a charmer
@Mel Fitzpatrick: u try 2 hard, was it goebbels who said accuse the opposition of that which you are guilty.
@Vote4Pedro: Wow, lolz
The impeachment farce wouldn’t have happened if a woman was in the White House . A Scandalous uneccassry ordeal!
@Ronan Walsh: Wha?
@Ronan Walsh: True – a woman wouldn’t be dumb enough to take an oath they would be President for the whole country and then try use the military aid and abuse power for self gain – most likely wouldn’t be any need to try have to use the checks and balances on a woman – you are so right
@Ronan Walsh: dead right Hillary!!!
@Dave Hammond: Hillary – whilst not perfect – would not turn this presidency into a circus. Its a laughing stock of the world.
@Radek: no she’d have it like a marketplace for political favours, just keep R@pey Bill giving speeches at $500,000 in Russia and everything wud flow nicely. It seems to me the hatred, loathing and general insanity from the accepting, liberal and inclusive democrats is to a certain degree because hes an outsider
The evil one is Trump, his cronies and die hard supporters. They’ve destroyed the USA.
@Lynne Colson: You must be from another planet because america is booming.
@Michael Maher: but no thanks to trump but don’t let facts get in the way
@Michael Maher: for some
@Michael Maher: in your head
@Lynne Colson: take a trip to Democratic city San Francisco and see what state it’s in. America as a whole is fine. We’ve been numerous times in the 4 years Donald was there and also when Barrack was in office. We try and see a different state or city each time we go. I’ll be there twice this year on business and for holidays. Every time we leave we can’t wait to go back. You’re spouting nonsense blaming Donald on things you can’t see unless MSM tell you. You probably couldn’t tell us the name of the homeless man you walk by every day without helping either. Cry me a river!!
@Michael Maher: its a morally defunct cesspool
@Michael Maher: Booming until the trillion dollars in loans to fund that ‘boom’ has to be paid back.
The ‘boom’ should end anytime now…
@Michael Maher: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Yeah well the history books will have impeached associated with him forever, that’s going the hurt the egoist.
@DJ François: those comfort blankets are getting more threadbare by the day.
Poor Donald. Such a nice guy, yet nastiness seems to follow him everywhere. A perpetual victim. Have no worries what so ever, he will get what’s coming to him. They always do.
lack of humility sickins me, only smugness, impeachment was too far but not even to admit some wrong doing shows how much of a narcissist he is
He has more people in the house of representives than the other party that is why he was aquited however he will be done after he has finished in presendential iffice
@Noel Cowzer: you can’t really believe he’ll be “done” when he leaves office do you? Same as the US right wingers who keep banging on about Hillary getting locked up, or the Brits who thought the Chilcot report might have at least some negative consequences for Tony Blair. The rich and powerful don’t get “done”. An occasional sacrificial lamb is thrown to the wolves to placate the masses but there’s no real justice at that end of society. Sure Lowry probably be re-elected at the weekend.
@Noel Cowzer: Senate
@Noel Cowzer: Wrong, his opponents had more people in the House of Representatives.
@Noel Cowzer: Ummm…. I think you mean the Senate???
Mitt Romney … take a bow.
WTF!
The Trump era, whether 4 or 8 years could set the tone for party politics for years afterward. I believe it could lead to reactionary parties out side of Red & Blue states. Parties that would spell and end to the venerable Democrats and Republicans.
@John Flood: Venerable…hardly a word you’d use to describe either party. Anyway it would be a good thing to have more parties on offer in the States. When only two exist, it’s like a warm nest for corruption to thrive. Imagine AOC and Rand Paul could have their own parties, the Greens could thrive and there may even be Christian democrats, like in Germany only far scarier.
@Burn_the_Witch: I think you missed the point John Flood was making.
Best of luck Donald Trump I wish I was you. I was in the same situation here in Ireland but I could not fight them and they are as you say EVIL PEOPLE.
Evil pure Evil. His family is evil. His own wife is with him cause of money. Who thinks she sleeps with him for fun………… wake up world
@Radek: No offence Radek, but the cognitive dissonance with people like yourself is off the scale. No wonder you & your ilk are so emotionally damaged. You have dived in emotionally time after time & refused to slow down and look at the facts rather than what you are told by the deranged media. Which side has been right 100% of the time at predicting the outcomes, for example with Kavanaugh, Mueller, the implosion of collusion, Ukrainegate etc every single time. When you tie your emotions to everything, you fail to see things clearly. Your type just don’t understand why every single time your side is wrong because of your cognitive dissonance, why the vision in your head doesn’t match the reality of what’s happening outside. Step back & stop judging everything through the prism of hatred.
He’s a horrible horrible evil dangerous man
@Stevo: its still there. Maybe he was telling the Donald to re dye his fruit and not to die.
@Dexter: nope. It’s gone
A marathon egotistical rant, lots of nasal sniffles poor man ⛄️
Basically the guy is “ for the fairies”.
PIG MAN PIG MAN HA HA CHARADE YOU ARE.
Bad
@Anna69: The Don is on the way…
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