The Revenge Tour

Trump’s Impeachment Revenge tour kicked off at a prayer breakfast yesterday where he began needling Senator Mitt Romney, the only Republican to vote to convict the president on one of the impeachment counts.  Before the Senate vote, the senator had declared that his faith had helped guide him to vote to convict the president. At the traditionally nonpartisan National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Trump said, faith was merely a “crutch” for Romney.

Following the prayer breakfast, Trump held a news conference in the White House. Speaking without a teleprompter, he seemed to relish in his freedom from impeachment’s shadow and the ability to slash back at his opponents. “We went through hell, unfairly. We did nothing wrong.” Trump repeated his claim that the impeachment was a “witch hunt” perpetrated by “bad people,” “dirty cops” and “liars” who sought solely to boot him from office.

“It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars,” Trump said. His remarks, in the White House East Room, were meant to be a “celebration,” he said, “after we were treated unbelievably unfairly.”

“Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person. Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person.”  He took shots at former FBI Director James Comey, whom he called a “sleazebag.”  He said it was “almost like” the Democrats “want to destroy our country.”

“I want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony, rotten deal by some very evil and sick people,” Trump said.

“He's impeached forever,” Nancy Pelosi said of Trump, “no matter what he says or what headlines he wants to carry around.”