Watch as President Trump says that the only reason Democrats want to impeach him is because it’s the only way they can win in 2020:
Partial transcript:
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REPORTER: “Do you believe it is a foregone conclusion that the House will impeach?”
TRUMP: “I think they want to. Any Democrat wants to because they’re not going to beat me in the election. So of course they want to impeach.
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Why would they want to impeach me? It’s so illegitimate. It cannot be the way the Founders, our great Founders meant this to be.
But I see this guy, Congressman Al Green say, ‘We have to impeach him, otherwise he’s going to win the election.’ What’s that all about? But that’s exactly what they’re saying. ‘We have to impeach him because otherwise he’s going to win.’
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I will win the election. Look, I have the strongest economy ever. It’s the economy, stupid. Right? I have the strongest economy in the history of our country. Okay? We’re setting records.
Over a hundred times — I think it’s like 118, but over a hundred times we’ve had the highest stock market in history since November 8. Over a hundred times. And by the way, the day I got elected, the following day, from there until July 20, the market went through the roof.
Do you know why it went through the roof? Because they got rid of Obama, and they got rid of Clinton.
And if anybody else, if any of these people I’ve been watching on the stage got elected, your 401(k)s would be down the tubes.
They would go down not 20 percent or 30 percent, they’d go down 70 or 80 or 90 and destroy the country. You’d destroy the country.
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So I think they want to impeach me because it’s the only way they’re going to win.
They have nothing. All they have is a phone call, which was perfect. All they have is a whistleblower who’s disappeared. Where is he? He’s gone.
Then they have a second whistleblower — the second whistleblower, oh, he’s got — where is he? He disappeared.
Then they have an informant. Oh, the informant is — where is he?
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They’re interviewing ambassadors who I’ve never heard of. I don’t know who these people are, I’ve never heard of them. And I have great respect for some of them.
One of them said just recently, a very, very highly respected man — I’m not going to get into their names, but he said, ‘No, no, we were very, very bothered by Joe Biden and his son back during the Obama Administration.’
He’s supposed to be their witness.
Don’t forget, many of these people were put there during Obama, during Clinton, during the never-Trump or Bush era.
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Those people might be worse than the never-Trumpers. The good news is they’re dying off fast.
They’re on artificial respiration, I think. But, no, impeachment, they want to impeach and they want to do it as quick as possible.”