Trump: ‘I greatly appreciate’ Pelosi’s opposition to impeachment By Caitlin Oprysko
“I greatly appreciate Nancy Pelosi’s statement against impeachment, but everyone must remember the minor fact that I never did anything wrong,” Trump wrote in part in a pair of tweets. | Al Drago/Getty Images
President Donald Trump wrote online Wednesday that he “greatly” appreciates House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to impeachment proceedings but complained that talk of removing him from office was not warranted to begin with.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) told The Washington Post earlier this week that she opposed impeaching the president absent “something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan.” Trump, the House speaker said, is “just not worth it.”
The White House has run with her comments in the days since she made them — even though Pelosi couched her opposition by noting she thinks Trump is unfit to be president — and Trump joined in on Wednesday.
“I greatly appreciate Nancy Pelosi’s statement against impeachment, but everyone must remember the minor fact that I never did anything wrong,” Trump wrote in part in a pair of tweets that also touted accomplishments his administration has claimed. “How do you impeach a man who is considered by many to be the President with the most successful first two years in history, especially when he has done nothing wrong and impeachment is for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’?”
Pelosi’s hard line on impeachment has divided congressional Democrats, who have launched sprawling oversight probes of Trump and his inner circle. Some Democrats have insisted that they fully intend to introduce articles of impeachment against the president and force a floor vote on them.
The president’s most recent proclamations of innocence come amid a busy weekfor special counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the federal investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and whether the president obstructed justice in the probe.
Later Wednesday, Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will find outthe total amount of time he will spend in prison — barring presidential pardon — when he receives his final sentence from a federal judge stemming from his guilty plea for witness tampering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Ukraine.
And on Thursday, the president could suffer an embarrassing defeat at the hands of his own party if Senate Republicans join with Democrats in votin to block his national emergency declaration to facilitate his border wall plans, setting Trump up for the first veto of his presidency.