Trump 'strongly' considering Nancy Pelosi's demand that he testify in impeachment probe: 'I like the idea'
President Donald Trump took to his favorite social media platform to signal that he is open to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's demand that he testify before Congress in the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
“Our Crazy, Do Nothing (where’s USMCA, infrastructure, lower drug pricing & much more?) Speaker of the House, Nervous Nancy Pelosi, who is petrified by her Radical Left knowing she will soon be gone (they & Fake News Media are her BOSS), suggested on Sunday’s DEFACE THE NATION … ….that I testify about the phony Impeachment Witch Hunt,” Trump wrote on Twitter Monday morning.
“She also said I could do it in writing. Even though I did nothing wrong, and don’t like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!” he added.
During an appearance on CBS's 'Face the Nation', the House Speaker invited the president to testify in the House inquiry.
“If he has information that is exculpatory, that means ex, taking away, culpable, blame, then we look forward to seeing it,” she said, adding that Trump “could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants, if he wants.”
Pelosi said Trump could appear publicly or even answer the committee's questions in writing, Mediaite reports.
The first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry of Trump are currently underway. A series of foreign officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee in connection with the president's alleged attempts to have Ukraine probe into the 2016 election as well as the alleged corruption by his 2020 presidential rival Joe Biden.
Several others are testifying before the House committee this week, including Mike Pence aide Jennifer Williams, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Kurt Volker, Tim Morrison, Fiona Hill, and Gordon Sondland, the diplomat at the center of the alleged scandal.