12/11/2019

IMPEACHMENT/PENNSYLVANIA/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump told supporters on Tuesday [12-10-19] at a rally in Pennsylvania that they were ‘lucky I became your president’ before entering into a screed against House Democrats for introducing articles of impeachment against him, calling the effort ‘flimsy’ and ‘the lightest impeachment in the history of our country’…Mr. Trump also targeted Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to work with him to complete portions of his administration’s signature North American trade pact, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and suggested that she had done so to ‘smother the impeachment crap’…The rally gave the president an opportunity to have a lengthy last word — and fire up a portion of his base in a crucial swing state — on one of the most consequential days of his presidency.” 

Katie Rogers, “Trump Rails Against ‘Flimsy’ Articles of Impeachment by ‘Radical’ Democrats,” The New York Times online, December 11, 2019