A hot-tempered Donald Trump unleashes furious attacks on the impeachment inquiry launched against him by Democrats
US President Donald Trump addresses a joint news conference with Finland's President Sauli Niinisto in the East Room of the White House in Washington, US, October 2, 2019. Easily rankled when Democrats accuse him of wrongdoing, Trump boiled over on Wednesday at the impeachment inquiry they are pursuing over his July 25 phone call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
From hard-boiled tweets to lashing remarks to reporters in the Oval Office and later in the East Room, Trump's anger built throughout the day. Trump said Schiff would not be able to carry the jockstrap of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, calling it a "blank strap" out of deference to his sense of Oval Office decorum.
A Finnish reporter looking to change the subject told Trump that "Finland is the happiest country in the world," to which the president replied: "Finland is a happy country."After the two leaders had a lunch of Dover sole in the Cabinet Room, the stage was set for a joint news conference in the East Room.
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