U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at a campaign rally at Democratic opponents like “crazy Nancy” Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, for pushing an impeachment inquiry.
Pelosi accused Trump of having a “meltdown” after walking out of a White House meeting on Wednesday where she and other Democratic leaders complained about his decision to pull U.S. troops from northeastern Syria and allow Turkey to attack America’s Kurdish allies in the area.
Trump has faced a backlash from his own Republican allies in Congress for the Syria pullout but he said on Thursday a ceasefire negotiated by Vice President Mike Pence with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan had helped ease the crisis.
Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry in the House on revelations that Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate unsubstantiated allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic presidential contender, and his son Hunter Biden, who was on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.