The morning of the US House of Representatives voting for impeachment, Trump woke up before dawn, flipped through television shows and began tweeting.
"Can you believe I will be impeached today?", Trump asked his followers on Twitter, knowing in advance that the House of Representatives would undoubtedly approve the terms to make him the third US president. in the history of impeachment.
Angered over the impeachment process and worried it might tarnish his legacy, Trump spent 24 hours before the House of Representatives voted to speak by phone with top Republican officials and congressmen, According to some sources who know the problem. He expressed anger at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and envisioned what his impeachment trial in the Senate would look like.
The US House of Representatives, controlled by the Democratic Party on the evening of December 18 (morning of December 19 in Hanoi), voted to approve the two terms impeaching Trump for abusing his power and obstructing Congress, paving the way for a trial. President in the Senate.
Last month, the House of Commons impeachment voting took almost all of Trump's time. He wrote an angry letter to House Speaker Pelosi, phoned his associates to vent his anger at midnight and planned a defense in the Senate trial.
According to Republican sources, over the course of days and nights, Trump repeatedly called and complained to Republicans in Congress about his impeachment process.
On the morning of December 18, when debate in the House of Representatives about the two terms of impeachment of Trump was taking place, he held a meeting with leading aides and members of the White House advisory office. According to a government source, Trump has conducted such meetings every day for the past few weeks to design a plan to deal with impeachment storms.
In the Oval Office on December 17, Trump said he would not follow the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives, but White House officials are still planning to help him update the situation on the voting day.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham announced that President Trump will "work all day" but "may have some information about the impeachment voting process in the middle of meetings."
10 minutes later, Trump burst into rage with a capitalized message on Twitter: "The ugly lies of the left-wing extremist Democrats are just watching."
Operation in the West Wing in recent weeks has been turned upside down even as the aides tried to make it work normally. Information about impeachment hearings is continually broadcast on television at the White House staff office. Trump mainly focused on how the impeachment trial in the Senate will take place. He shared with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell about his desire to be vindicated, not simply acquittal.
The impeachment crisis continues to explode, especially when Trump keeps tweeting and commenting on it.
Last week, Trump and his advisers, including speechwriter Stephen Miller, began drafting a fierce letter to House Speaker Pelosi. Some White House officials not involved in preparing the letter said they were surprised to see the six-page text in a tone of indignation.
According to the original plan, the letter would be sent on December 16, but government officials stepped back one day to coincide with the time House members debated the rules of impeachment voting sessions. forthcoming.
Trump's allies also took steps to counter when the House of Representatives finished voting. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to go to Michigan and will give a speech about the outcome of the impeachment vote at an election campaign. Joining him was David Bossie, Trump's former campaign advisor, who was involved in the scandal investigation that led former President Bill Clinton to be impeached in 1999.
Like the Clinton impeachment investigation, voting results were announced on the December holiday season. In nearly every afternoon and evening for the past few weeks, Trump had time to temporarily forget the storm for something else. : Attend annual receptions held at the White House.
On December 17, just before the impeachment vote, he also appeared here to greet a crowd of supporters and friends. The US president barely mentioned the impeachment storm with his guests. He only briefly said that "they have nothing in their hands" and then moved on to the future topic, affirming "2020 will be a great year". He mentioned "good market", "good army" and looked at the band next to him, jokingly: "Good band".
Accompanying Trump in the parties is First Lady Melania. She introduced him to the crowd but never mentioned the impeachment crisis on her own. Previously, Melania also kept quiet. She spoke only once when her son's name was mentioned in a congressional hearing.
Thousands of visitors came to the White House on the occasion of the holiday. President Trump is always welcoming, but according to officials, backstage, he is not always in a good mood.
But the holiday atmosphere still helps him somewhat relieve stress. Even at the time when the House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump, he appeared on stage in Battle Creek, Michigan, holding an election campaign entitled "Merry Christmas".
Even so, Trump is still hard to hide his anger in his speech here. "While we create jobs and fight for Michigan, the leftist extremists in parliament are filled with jealousy, hatred and rage," he told Michigan state voters, adding that Democrats "trying to neutralize the votes of tens of millions of patriotic Americans".