The intensity of Trump’s tweets has been rising in tandem with a notable shift in public sentiment toward impeachment. Trump has reacted by second-guessing critics and the Constitution, stonewalling information requests and venting against the government machine he calls “the deep state.” It’s a bitter truth for the former real estate magnate who controlled much of his world before the presidency put him face-to-face with equivalent branches of government. It was Trump’s latest objection to Schiff’s summation of a rough transcript in which the president on July 25 pressured Ukraine’s leader to investigate Joe Biden’s son.Ī day earlier, Trump had groused: “I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason.”Įven presidents don’t always get what they want, by design. “Arrest for Treason?” Trump tweeted of the California Democrat. Trump was anything but subtle in taking on Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a longtime nemesis. Trump also suggested that any effort to oust him could lead to civil war, part of a weekend barrage of tweets that offered a window into his raw emotions.

And an agitated Trump was very publicly blurring the two as he tweeted against his critics and the House impeachment push. But the Constitution is clear that treason is not the same as disloyalty. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump, never one for understatement, is leaning into his threats as impeachment pressure mounts.

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