President Trump is once again lashing out at impeachment talk, using his victory in the 2016 election as an argument against it.
Trump said on Twitter Friday that he doesn't understand how Democrats could impeach someone who "won perhaps the greatest election of all time," who did "nothing wrong," had "the most successful first two years of any president," and is the most popular Republican president ever.
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