President Trump’s campaign team and advisers said Tuesday that Democrats’ effort to impeach him will backfire in 2020 in the face of public sentiment against…
President Trump’s campaign team and advisers said Tuesday that Democrats’ effort to impeach him will backfire in 2020 in the face of public sentiment against impeachment and Mr. Trump’s strong economic record.
A day after Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify whether the president obstructed justice, Trump campaign national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Democrats “have never stopped trying to overturn the lawful results of the 2016 election.”
“Now that the Russia hoax has failed, they are turning to impeachment, which is equally ridiculous,” Ms. McEnany said. The “2020 Democrats are increasingly playing to the radical fringe of their party and are even willing to destabilize and divide the country to do it.”
White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said Democrats are pushing impeachment because their failure to do so would make the last two years of investigating the president look like a “waste.”
“It’s pretty clear what [Judiciary Committee Chairman] Jerry Nadler and the Democrats are up to,” Mr. Gidley told reporters. “They don’t want to get to the truth at this point, I don’t know what Jerry Nadler thinks he’s going to get that [special counsel] Robert Mueller didn’t.”
Mr. Trump said Tuesday night that he is opposed to current and former White House aides testifying to Congress after they already had cooperated with the Mueller probe.
“There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan,” the president told The Washington Post in an interview.
