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US President Donald Trump on Friday, 13 December, said it was unfair that he was being impeached as he had done no wrong and the country under him was doing quite good.
“It’s not fair that I’m being Impeached when I've done absolutely nothing wrong!” Trump said in a tweet on 13 December night as a key Congressional committee, earlier in the day, approved the two articles of impeachment against him.
“The Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats have become the Party of Hate. They are so bad for our Country!” Trump said in his tweet.
Earlier in the day, he described the impeachment as a hoax and politically motivated.
“The impeachment is a hoax. It is a sham. It started a long time ago, probably before I came down the escalator with the future First Lady. It started a long time ago,” Trump told reporters earlier in the day at the White House.
“It is a witch hunt. It is a sham. It is a hoax. Nothing was done wrong. Zero was done wrong. I think it is a horrible thing to be using the tool of impeachment, which is supposed to be used in an emergency. And it would seem many, many, many years apart,” he asserted.
The Democrats, he said, were trivialising impeachment.
He asserted that his poll numbers had gone through the roof.
Meanwhile, the US Senate geared itself for the next phase of impeachment process.
“If articles of impeachment are sent to the Senate, every single senator will take an oath to render ‘impartial justice’. Making sure the Senate conducts a fair and honest trial that allows all the facts to come out is paramount,” Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer said.
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