Impeachment is a greatest “HOAX”: Donald Trump

Inquiry was “a fraudulent crime on the American people.”  I would work with “shifty Schiff and Pelosi and all of them… because… I had a great call with the president of Ukraine. U.S President

WASHINGTON: American President Donald Trump used tweets as well as the stage of a joint press conference with the visiting Finland’s president to defend himself against the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

Trump said, “This is the greatest hoax” the impeachment inquiry during the joint press conference with Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto at the White House.

Trump said the impeachment inquiry was “a fraudulent crime on the American people.” He added that he would work with “shifty Schiff and Pelosi and all of them… because… I had a great call with the president of Ukraine.”

The impeachment inquiry, announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sept. 24, stemmed from a whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump had pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a July 25 phone call to investigate Joe Biden, Democratic presidential candidate for the 2020 election, as well as issues related to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff held a press conference earlier on Wednesday, at which Pelosi said her chamber had “no choice but to go forward” with the impeachment proceedings.

Schiff, for his part, said the White House’s attempt to stonewall the investigations currently being undertaken by six House committees “will be considered further evidence of obstruction of justice.”

Trump wrote in an earlier tweet that “completely fabricated my words (with Zelensky) and read them to Congress as though they were said by me.”