Trump calls impeachment vote 'embarrassment' to nation

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press
Updated 1:57 pm CST, Friday, December 13, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday's House committee vote to impeach him ”an embarrassment to our country" and refused to back away from the charge that first ensnared him in the scandal. Almost simultaneous to the vote, Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, turned up at the White House to discuss Ukraine.

With a vote by the full House expected next week, Trump declared in the Oval Office that the Democrats had "made absolute fools of themselves" by moving ahead with impeachment. Trump stands poised to be the third president impeached, though it is all but certain he will not be removed from office by the Republican-controlled Senate.

”You’re trivializing impeachment, when you use it for absolutely nothing, other than trying for political gain," Trump said as he sat alongside the president of Paraguay. ”It’s a sad thing for the country but a good thing for me politically."

Trump's latest pushback on impeachment came a short time after Giuliani turned up at the White House. Giuliani, who has been deeply involved in the Ukraine dealings at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, was expected to meet with Trump, who requested a briefing from the former New York City mayor on his recent trip to Kyiv.


Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Amid-impeachment-vote-Giuliani-visits-White-House-14904522.php

[Kali]

1. President Projection

The real embarrassment to the country.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. GMTA

that is exactly my thinking - all he can do is project - that's all his party can do.

Whatever they accuse Democrats of, you can bet it is what they are guilty of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[truthisfreedom]

2. He's got the embarrassment part right.

He’s the laughingstock of the world.

[Captain Zero]

5. World Leaders laughed at him at NATO Summit

He's the embarrassment.

[Stuart G]

4. It isn't the vote that is "an embarrassment" to the nation, it is Donald Trump that is an

embarrassment to our nation

[Captain Zero]

7. World leaders laughed at him at the UN

he's the embarrassment.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Ferdinand Marcos & Ceaușescu Ride Again!

The distortions in this man's mind are on steroids. Seriously demented. It's like a serial killer who swears he did it all for humanity!

[Claritie Pixie]

8. Awww he's embarrassed! Good to know.

[Thekaspervote]

15. Awh..so he is capable of some feelings

[napi21]

26. Yes, he's capable of only one feeling..feeling sorry for himself! n/t

[B Stieg]

9. No, Mr. pResident, the real problem is that you're a crook.

As you always have been.

[stopbush]

10. Gee, I guess I'm ecstatically embarrassed.

If this is what embarrassment feels like, I’ll take as much as can be doled out.

[RAB910]

11. He is right, but not the way he thinks

The Republicans openly selling out their Country and betraying their oath of office to defend their criminal/treasonous President truly is an embarrassment

[Grokenstein]

12. Also correct about trivializing impeachment

...Of course, when Republicans were yarping about starting impeachment proceedings against Hillary on Day One, that was "different." Somehow.

[stillcool]

13. give that guy a mirror...

[BKDem]

14. Merkel and Macron sound happy that they'll be rid of Boris Johnson soon enough.

Imagine the their joy at the removal/defeat/death of Donald Trump.

[cstanleytech]

16. Dear Donald,

They were not laughing "with" you at the UN rather they were laughing "at" you.

Sincerely,
A Concerned Citizen.

[bluescribbler]

17. Projecting again?

Of course he is. It's a pattern with him.

[rickyhall]

18. It's embarrassing that we haven't gotten rid of the dick yet.

[MissMillie]

19. 45 doesn't get to say what I'm embarassed about

If he wants to be embarrassed about something, he should look in a mirror.

[machoneman]

20. He is scared. Even if aquited, the knows this has and will....

hurt him politically. No fence-leaners this time around. I do think many wingers will stay home this coming November, split their votes or ony vote for local//state candidates. Independents, in droves, will vote for anyoen but Trump. I also see that many women (and hear) from husband-voting women) they will not stand still this election season and will vote against the Orangeanus.

Further, two of my tax guys (my guy in IL and my gal's Dad in ND) both say the famrers who are still alive (many suicides, sad) and are not getting any subsidies are hopiing mad at Trumplestilskins. All say only the biggest coporate farms are getting all the cash while the little guys get drips and drabs, not enough cash to forstall bankruptcy. I have sorry to say little empathy for these Trumpy voters; let this be a lesson to them in voting for a pussy-grabbin', NYC tax cheat!

[Mc Mike]

21. The impeachment vote is also very obese, bald, and bankrupted 3 casinos.

[Miigwech]

22. Poor trump. Does his wittle weenie hurt?

No matter how much power, pussy or money he grabs ... it ain't gonna make his penis grow. A Psychiatrist needs to explain that fact to him.

[Kablooie]

23. I agree. It's embarrassing to have a president who must be impeached.

[Lucky Luciano]

24. Well, he walked right into that one, didn't he?

[Marcuse]

25. There he goes again. Conflating himself and the country once again.

[turbinetree]

27. No, your an embarrassment..................

people have died on foreign soil and beaches to defend and protect the Constitution....................what have you done again........................besides project yourself ......................

[Doitnow]

28. For all those times that trumpy's mama never said "no, you can't have that," this country has to

suffer huge consequences---- and finally, with impeachment, he will, too.

Ditto all of the above.

[orangecrush]

29. It is embarrassing

That some people in this country are blind and ignorant enough to vote for a monster.

[ReformedGOPer]

30. Well, he would know what an embarrassment is.