Trump is only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.
TRUMP IMPEACHMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Trump makes ‘hell’-acious crack about deceased Rep. John Dingell, wife responds
President Donald Trump made a macabre quip about late Democratic Rep. John Dingell at his rally in Michigan on Wednesday night, suggesting he was “looking up” from Hell.
Dingell’s widow Debbie responded with a tweet, saying, “I’m preparing for the first holiday season without the man I love. You brought me down in a way you can never imagine.”
Trump made the comment while implying that Debbie Dingell, who’s held her husband’s seat in Michigan since 2014, was ungrateful for coming out in favor of his impeachment.
“Debbie Dingell, that’s a real beauty,” Trump told the crowd, noting he’d ordered flags lowered after her husband died earlier this year at age 92. John Dingell had been the longest serving member of Congress, serving for 59 years.
Trump also said he gave Dingell an “A+” memorial.
Trump: ‘It doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached’
As the House of Representatives crossed the vote threshold needed to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the third president in U.S. history to face a Senate trial, Trump climbed on stage here to the roar of his fans for a historic split-screen evening.
“It doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached. The country is doing better than ever before, we did nothing wrong, and we have otremendous support in the Republican Party like we’ve never had before,” Trump said, offering one line of defense after another from a stage adorned with Christmas decorations.
“Tonight, the House Democrats are trying to nullify the ballots of tens of millions of patriotic Americans,” he continued, later saying his predecessor, President Barack Obama, should have been the one facing that penalty. “Why didn’t the Republicans impeach him?” he asked.
Trump accused Democrats of “declaring their deep hatred and disdain for the American voter” and characterized their support for his impeachment as an “eternal mark of shame”: “They have nothing. They’re the ones who should be impeached, every one of them.”
