Trump news: Lawsuit alleging president profits from White House moves forward, as he rages over impeachment in furious tweets
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Donald Trump has lashed out at moves towards his impeachment in a series of angry tweets claiming he has “done more than any president”.
“You don’t impeach presidents for doing a good (great!) job,” he insisted, before accusing his rivals of “treasonous crimes”.
It followed his frequently incoherent speech to Republican members of Congress about the Clean Waters Act, in which he suggested the US was uninhabited until 25 years ago.
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“By the way today we have the cleanest air, we have the cleanest water that we’ve ever had in the history of our country,” he said.
Mr Trump then appeared to suggest that the history of the US was merely 25 years long.
“Let’s say the history of our country over the last 25 years, I would say that the first few years they probably had cleaner air and cleaner water because there was nobody here.”
The president was speaking in Baltimore, a city which he attacked repeatedly last summer.
He also celebrated a "historic milestone" when the senate approved his 150th federal judge, and sent out some rogue tweets about vaping.
Democratic senator Chris Coons, of Delaware, has gone after Beto O'Rourke for promising to take away people's AR-15s during the Thursday Democratic debates.
Mr Coons claimed that Mr O'Rourke had given the NRA and pro-Second Amendment activists fodder for years to come, by supporting a mandatory gun buy back programme in the US.
"I frankly think that that clip will be played for years at Second Amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people by saying that Democrats are coming for your guns," said Mr Coons on CNN.
Donald Trump is celebrating perhaps the biggest victory he understands his administration to have made: appointing judges. The president absolutely loves to tell audiences how many federal judges he's appointed. Here, he tweets about having his 150th judge confirmed.
Over at BuzzFeed News, Zoe Tillman looks at why all these judges really do matter, and wonders why Democrats aren't really talking about them - including at last night's debate.
Greta Thunberg joined students for a march in front of the White House today, where young people are demanding action in the face of the climate crisis.
Trump clarifies that he'll be capitalizing the word "Vaping" from now on. Please adjust this in your Trump Capitalization Style Guide.
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