Trump Flips Out About His Senate Impeachment Trial On Twitter

President Donald Trump speaks to the press during Finnish President Sauli Niinisto's visit to the White House on October 02, 2019. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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After mostly confining his Twitter feed to retweets from GOP allies this week, a livid President Donald Trump fired off tweet after tweet in an extended rant about his Senate impeachment trial on Thursday morning.

“The Democrat House would not give us lawyers, or not one witness, but now demand that the Republican Senate produce the witnesses that the House never sought, or even asked for?” he tweeted. “They had their chance, but pretended to rush. Most unfair & corrupt hearing in Congressional history!”

The tweet contained multiple falsehoods; House Democrats had invited White House lawyers to participate in the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings and had issued several subpoenas to the Trump administration officials whom Democrats seek to subpoena again in the Senate trial. However, GOP senators have voted against allowing witnesses and documents.

“No matter what you give to the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, it will never be enough!” Trump wrote a few minutes later.

Followed up by: “The Democrats & Shifty Schiff, whose presentation to the Senate was loaded with lies and misrepresentations, are refusing to state that the Obama Administration withheld aid from many countries including Ukraine, Pakistan, Philippines, Egypt, Honduras, & Mexico. Witch Hunt!”

Since the trial kicked off this week, Trump has mostly retweeted comments about impeachment from Republican loyalists and Fox News analysts instead of posting his own thoughts on the matter.

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  1. DAY 1,099: Still. No. Pivot.

  2. “The Democrats & Shifty Schiff, whose presentation to the Senate was loaded with lies and misrepresentations, are refusing to state that the Obama Administration withheld aid from many countries including Ukraine, Pakistan, Philippines, Egypt, Honduras, & Mexico. Witch Hunt!”

    Still after Obama after all these years. ‘Because I said so’ is not a legal defense. ‘Because someone else did it too’ is not a legal defense.

    Again, if they have the docs and witnesses that prove his innocence, release it all and let it come forward.

    Otherwise, how can I miss you if you won’t go away?

  3. Tell us AGAIN how he is doing ‘the Nation’s business’ with over 100 tweets yesterday. He is guilty as sin. He KNOWS it. The Senators KNOW it but folksy aholes like Kennedy from LA are out there saying ‘I don’t HAVE to read the transcripts…I’ve been hearing some good discussion on them!’ MORONS. They are out there for the rubes who are asking ‘isn’t it OK to ask for foreign interference???’

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