US President Donald Trump have publicly expressed his fury against Democrats and the media over the impeachment inquiry into his call with the Ukranian president.
During public events with Finland's president, President Trump showed his anger as he spoke about the Democrats' impeachment inquiry. He said: "This is the greatest hoax. This is just a continuation of what's been playing out since my election. This is a fraudulent crime on the American people."
Jeff Mason, a reporter from Reuters, repeatedly asked Trump about what he wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do with regard to former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Without answering the question, he got furious at Mason and asked Mason to just ask questions to Finland's president.
Mason later said that "it's a legitimate question" and that Trump's frustration did not appear to be a strategy but rather a sign of irritation. He added that Trump is "just upset and frustrated by how the impeachment inquiry is now going. He lashes out at journalists, he lashes out at the media in particular, when he feels under pressure, when he feels frustrated -- I think that's what he did today."
Mason argued that "If he wants to say that he was not looking for the President of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, despite what it says in that transcript, then he needs to say that or he needs to explain it, and he hasn't done that."
Prior to these public appearances, Trump has remained mostly silent in public about the issue.
Trump also claimed that House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff should be investigated for "treason" for dramatizing a version of the Ukraine call last week. He claimed: "It should be criminal. It should be treasonous. He made it up; every word of it, made up."
