Trump says 'I do want always corruption' amid string of barely coherent outbursts in wild Fox News interview
Donald Trump hurled incendiary insults at his political rivals, supported a slew of conspiracy theories and refuted verifiable facts during an interview an interview on Fox News.
Speaking with the cable network’s morning show hosts, the president sought to undermine the public impeachment hearings against him by slamming House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff as a “sick puppy”.
“He’s sick, their’s something wrong with him,” Mr Trump said.
The president then went on to call the chairman leading the probe a “nutjob,” before attacking several other Democratic leaders. He called US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Crazy Nancy Pelosi” and said former Vice President Joe Biden was mentally “off”, adding: “I don’t know if Joe can make it mentally” through the 2020 campaign trail.
Mr Trump’s wide-ranging interview included several falsities — the president continued to assert Europe wasn’t providing any aid to Ukraine when in fact it does — and suggested thousands would have been killed in the Hong Kong protests if it were not for a trade deal he said he was “very close” to making with China.
The president appeared to divert from several lines of questioning and at times misspoke, at one point saying: "I do want always corruption."
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