President Donald Trump isn’t bothered that the House impeached him and the Senate is currently deliberating over whether to kick him out of office.
In fact, he’s having a great time. Really.
During a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday night, Trump told his supporters that impeachment was “not good” for President Bill Clinton and a “dark time” for presidents Richard Nixon and Andrew Johnson.
But not for Trump!
“This is a happy period for us,” the President said as the crowd cheered. “It’s a happy period.”
“It’s a happy period because we call this ‘impeachment-lite,'” he continued. “This is light.”
That’s….not how impeachment works, even though the GOP-controlled Senate will almost certainly block witnesses and acquit Trump in the impeachment trial.
The President was definitively impeached by the House on December 18, and as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said shortly before the trial began, “he’s been impeached forever.”
Trump tells his supporters that "this is a happy period" amid Senate impeachment trial. pic.twitter.com/oLOFos1BYn
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