WH Accuses Dems Of Having ‘Sick Hatred’ For Trump Amid Public Impeachment Hearing

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham listens as President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press at the White House before departing on September 09, 2019. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham lashed out at Democrats on Thursday as another public impeachment hearing was underway.

“The Democrats’ [sic] are clearly being motivated by a sick hatred for President Trump and their rabid desire to overturn the 2016 election,” Grisham said in response to the hearing. “The American people deserve better.”

She also claimed that the witnesses, former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and State Department official David Holmes, “rely heavily on their own presumptions, assumptions and opinions.”

Though the hearing is still ongoing, Hill and Holmes have already further torpedoed President Donald Trump’s defenses for the Ukraine scheme.

Holmes testified that he had overheard a call between Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, during which the President asked Sondland about the status of the “investigations” into Joe Biden that he wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce.

Hill took aim at Trump and other Republicans’ conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for the 2016 election interference.

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  1. Avatar for sandi sandi says:

    My hatred is quite robust & healthy!

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “The Democrats’ [sic] are clearly being motivated by a sick hatred for President Trump and their rabid desire to overturn the 2016 election,” Grisham said in response to the hearing. “The American people deserve better.”

    I disrespectfully disagree with Grisham. I would say Democrats have just the proper amount of hatred for the man who separates and jails little children and is a traitor to America and her values.

    Watching Trump and now Netanyahu getting hoisted by their own petard is karmic Justice. Slow in coming, but it is coming.

  3. No, I have a hatred of crooks and other people demanding a foreign country interfere in a US election.

  4. I admit it. I’ve got a hatred for Trump and many of the other Republicans (Barr, McConnell, Nunes, Jordan, to name a few).

    However, it does not make me sick and it’s not disabling in the least … actually it’s quite invigorating.

    I hope it’s contagious, too.

  5. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Cry harder, snowflakes.

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