Democratic opponents put Trump in foul mood

LAKE CHARLES, LA. >> President Donald Trump used foul language, fierce political attacks and personal grievance to light up his supporters at a rally here Friday night, turning up the volume on his reelection campaign rhetoric for the second day in a row.

The president lashed out at the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, saying that the top Democrat in Congress “hates this country” and lashing out at her decision to begin an impeachment inquiry into his efforts to get foreign countries to dig up damaging information on his rivals.

To the delight of thousands who repeatedly roared their approval, Trump denounced the impeachment inquiry and condemned what he called the “unholy alliance of corrupt Democrat politicians, deep-state bureaucrats and the fake news media.”

“The radical Democrats’ policies are crazy. Their politicians are corrupt. Their candidates are terrible,” Trump said to huge applause. “And they know they can’t win on Election Day so they’re pursuing an illegal, invalid and unconstitutional bullshit impeachment.”

Regarding Pelosi, he said, “I used to think she loved the country. She hates the country, because she wouldn’t be doing this to the country if she did,” Trump said. “She hates the country. Nancy Pelosi hates the United States of America, because she wouldn’t be doing this.”

Trump’s latest political rally came only a day after he appeared in front of supporters in Minneapolis to deliver a profanity-laced screed against former Vice President Joe Biden and called his son Hunter a “loser.”

Trump only briefly returned to Washington, where an impeachment inquiry surrounding his efforts to pressure the Ukrainian president to uncover damaging information about the Bidens is rapidly moving forward.