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'Off-script' Trump rails against impeachment, Democrats at feisty rally | TheHill

posted onOctober 11, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE on Thursday eviscerated House Democrats at a campaign rally in Minneapolis, accusing them of attempting an “overthrow” of the government and pursuing an “insane” impeachment inquiry in order to bruise him ahead of the 2020 election. “Now the do-nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate. Thirteen months, they’ve got to move fast, because they’re not beating us at the polls and they know it — despite the phony polls,” Trump told the screaming crowd. “They know they can’t win the 2020 election, so they’re pursuing the insane impeachment witch hunt,” Trump said. The rally was Trump’s first since House Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry focused on his dealings with Ukraine about two weeks prior. He threw barbs at House Speaker MORE, and others while hammering home his efforts to rid Washington of establishment politicians — a central message of his 2016 campaign. Trump ripped Pelosi as “desperate” and described Rep. MORE (D-Minn.), in whose congressional district he was speaking, as an “America-hating socialist.” At one point, Trump turned toward the crowd and leaned into his off-the-cuff attack lines against a slew of political rivals, saying he refused to "bow or bend to the Washington swamp." "I gotta tell you," Trump said, waving off the crowd. "Isn't it much better when I go off script? Isn't that better? So much better." Democrats have zeroed in on a whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump solicited foreign interference in a... Link to the full article to read more

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