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- President Donald Trump spent a meeting with Republican lawmakers this week complaining about the ongoing impeachment inquiry into him and bragging about his popular tweets, the Wall Street Journal reported.
- Trump "also touched on state polling, his re-election campaign and even reminisced about his appearances on 'The Apprentice,'" according to the Journal.
- Trump also proudly informed lawmakers that his tweeting a photo of a military K9 who assisted US forces in the capture of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was his second most-liked tweet ever with 572,000 likes and 131,000 retweets.
- Trump's impromptu meetings and frequent tweeting reflect a larger lack of an organized and structured impeachment strategy, which by all accounts, is being led by Trump himself and not a team of communications professionals.
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President Donald Trump invites select Republican lawmakers for regular strategy meetings at the White House, but spent this week's meeting complaining about the ongoing impeachment inquiry into him and bragging about his popular tweets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal reported that during these meetings, Trump has veered off into discussing impeachment. He lamented the ongoing inquiry being pursued by the House of Representatives and disputed the testimony of several State Department and White House officials who have testified that the Trump administration leveraged military aid to pressure Ukrainian officials into pursuing investigations of Trump's political rivals. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope See Also: SEE ALSO: House Democrats just gave Republicans everything they wanted in the impeachment inquiry |