Impeachment moves causing tremendous anger, Trump says


FE Team | Published: January 12, 2021 21:56:25 | Updated: January 13, 2021 19:40:08


US President Donald Trump speaking to the press as he departs the White House on travel to visit the US-Mexico border Wall in Texas on Tuesday –Reuters Photo

US President Donald Trump, who is under pressure to resign after his supporters carried out a deadly breach of the US Capitol last week, has said there was tremendous anger about moves to impeach him but added he did not want violence.

“I want no violence,” Trump told reporters as he left for a trip to the border wall in Alamo, Texas.

In his first remarks to reporters since December 8, the embattled Republican president did not answer a question about whether he would resign, reports Reuters.

He criticised impeachment moves by Democratic lawmakers.

“This impeachment is causing tremendous anger and they’re doing it, and it’s really a terrible thing that they’re doing,” Trump said. He added that the move to impeach him, on a charge of inciting insurrection over the Capitol attack, was a continuation of the “witch hunt” against him.

Trump would become the first US president to be impeached twice if the House of Representatives votes in favour of impeachment on Wednesday.

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