At Florida ‘homecoming rally,’ Trump builds his case against impeachment

“The radical Democrats are trying to overturn the last election because they know that they cannot win the next election,” he says.

SUNRISE, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday spent much of his “homecoming rally” here building his case against impeachment before thousands of enthusiastic supporters.

He cast Democrats’ inquiry as a desperate effort to win back the White House in 2020. He went so far as to call the impeachment proceedings “bullshit,” prompting a new audience chant containing the expletive. And he put those proceedings in the same category as the Mueller investigation, labeling all of it a “scam” and a “hoax.”

“They’re attacking me because I’m exposing a rigged system that enriched itself at your expense and I’m restoring government of, by and for the people,” he told the crowd at the BB&T Center.

View the complete November 26 article by Nancy Cook and Matthew Choi on the Politico website here.