President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he thinks the new impeachment proceedings against him launched by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives are “absolutely ridiculous” and are causing “tremendous danger” to the country and “tremendous anger.”
He did not specify the danger or say who was angry.
Trump made his remarks to reporters at the White House shortly before traveling to Texas, where he will visit the site of construction on a portion of the border wall, amid political tension throughout the country after the chaotic invasion of the Capitol last week by a violent mob of his supporters.
NEW: Reporter: "What is your role in what happened at the Capitol? What is your personal responsibility?"
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The president told the media that “We want absolutely no violence. And on the impeachment it’s really a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics. It’s ridiculous. It’s absolutely ridiculous.”
“This impeachment is causing tremendous anger and you’re doing it and it’s really a terrible thing that they’re doing,” he said, his remarks being the first public comments he has made since the deadly assault on the Capitol in which five people died, including a Capitol police officer.
Democrats have said that they will accuse the president of “inciting insurrection” for stirring up a large group of his supporters at a White House rally and urging them to march on Congress, saying that he would accompany them, whereupon the enraged mob set out – without Trump – and forced their way into the Capitol as lawmakers were proceeding with certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s Nov. 3 election victory.
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: This video appears to have been scrubbed from You Tube.
Here is the Jan. 6th rally video again.
This video is still online at this moment. It is complete with the introductory speakers. You can jump ahead in the video for Trump’s comments.
The violence, chaos and mayhem delayed that vote for several hours and made many lawmakers fear for their lives.
When asked by reporters if he is considering resigning, as Democratic lawmakers have called for, Trump sidestepped giving a direct response, saying only “I want no violence.”
GOPUSA Editor’s Note: The president did travel to the border wall in Texas yesterday although I’ve seen little coverage by the media. Here is a video.
The US is going through an unprecedented period of political convulsion and turmoil after Trump egged on the MAGA mob to demonstrate their strength and assault the Capitol to disrupt the election certification proceedings.
Trump has incessantly claimed that only massive election fraud denied him reelection, asserting that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election and put Biden into office illegally.
He expressed no remorse for his remarks to the gigantic crowd before they moved on the Capitol, saying that “People thought that what I said was totally appropriate,” although, again, he did not say which people.
Trump will leave office on Jan. 20 and Biden will be inaugurated amid heavy security measures.
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Of course the deep state Democrats and Republicans In Name Only want to get rid of Trump! Trump and his supporters are a threat to the deep state and all of the criminals in it.
Democrats just delivered a live birthed election win and already the party ghouls and RINOs are trying to drop it on its head in a live Trump abortion. Just who in their right mind, hands over a live newborn baby into the hands of people on drugs. Power is their drug, and their fumbling hands and fumbling befuddled minds are about to depopulate their party from power and political potency, and reveal just what a dangerous place it is to be, when the family unit is redefined and filled with illegitimate children of the lessor god, who do not understand how to fondle and feed a fledgling newborn infant, let alone change its diapers when needed. They claim a desire for unity, but would rather cut the baby in half rather than jeopardize losing their addicted drug of power, in what they deem their socialist Solomon sodomized secular wisdom. When Nancy Pelosi is politically mated with Chuck Schumer, it’s the bride of Chucky hooking up with pound of flesh demanding Shakespearian Merchant of Venom, to bring forth a political self-Caesarian birthed Alien that pops out of the stomach of the body politic like in the movie ALIEN, who then proceeds to consume the pounds of flesh and rights and property of WE THE PEOPLE.
Maybe the entire GOP has been taken over by ‘invasion of the body snatchers’?? IMO THAT IS THE ONLY thing i can see, as to why so many have turned into cowards and democrat -lites…
do not give up the good fight mr.president.
the one thing you should have done was get rid of more of the swamp dwellers that
worked for obama and clinton.
STARTING with everyone in the FBI and DOJ.