U.S. President Donald Trump took
to Twitter to ask his millions of followers to say a prayer, as the House of
Representatives was readying to impeach a president for only the third time in
the country’s history.
“Can you believe that I will be
impeached today by the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, AND I DID NOTHING
WRONG! A terrible Thing. Read the Transcripts.
This should never happen to
another President again. Say a PRAYER!” Mr Trump posted.
The president was also rapidly
retweeting supporters in the conservative media and quoted a leading Republican
in Congress who denounced the impeachment process and slammed Trump’s opponents
as people who “all they had was never to let him have an easy breath.”
Similarly, Mr Trump is
“frustrated” by the impeachment process against him, White House spokeswoman
Stephanie Grisham told Fox News.
“He’s frustrated, as evidenced by
the letter yesterday,” she said, referring to a seething six page letter sent
by Mr Trump to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in which he accused is
opponents of waging open war and seeking to overthrow democracy.
“At the end of the day he did
nothing wrong,” she said. She insisted he remained “focused” on his job as
president.
The U.S. House of Representatives
is expected to vote on Wednesday to impeach Mr Trump for obstruction of
Congress and abuse of power related to his dealings with Ukraine.
If the articles of impeachment
are approved, as expected, Mr Trump would become only the third U.S. president
to be impeached.
No U.S. president has been
removed from office via the impeachment process.
Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi
has the majority she needs to approve the two pending articles of impeachment,
members said on Tuesday.
Wednesday’s votes, which are set
for sometime in the afternoon or early evening, are expected to play out
largely along party lines.
Democrats control the House 233
to 197 seats over Republicans, with one independent and four vacancies.
The impeachment process has
deepened political divides in the U.S. as the country heads for the 2020
presidential election.
Those divides were on further
display on the eve of the House votes.
In a vitriolic six-page letter to
Ms Pelosi on Tuesday, Mr Trump called the House’s impeachment drive a “charade”
and a “colossal injustice”.
“You are turning a policy
disagreement between two branches of government into an impeachable offence,”
Mr Trump said in the letter.
“I have no doubt that the
American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the
upcoming 2020 election,” Mr Trump wrote.
(dpa/NAN)
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