US President Donald Trump says impeachment is 'a hoax'
US President Donald Trump doesn't feel like he's being impeached because "it's a hoax".
He made the comments during a meeting at the Oval Office with Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey.
"Well, I don't feel like I'm being impeached because it's a hoax. It's a setup. It's a horrible thing they did," Mr Trump said.
Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting after being impeached. AP
"They happened to have a small majority and they took that small majority and they forced people. And, you know, they said, oh, I watched Pelosi out there saying, oh, no, we don't want to talk to anybody.
"They put the arm on everybody. They tried to get them to do what they had to do. Many of those people were like Jeff, where they didn't want to vote that way. But it doesn't feel to me it doesn't feel like impeachment."
He later reiterated these comments on Twitter, and targeted speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling her pathetic.
At a rally in Michigan a day earlier, Mr Trump call the proceedings "a suicide march" for the Democratic Party as he delivered a rambling two-hour rally speech that overlapped the vote.
Mr Trump will face a Senate trial in 2020.
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