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Donald Trump went on a rampage at a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto at the White House in Washington on October 2, 2019. REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque

In the United States, the investigation into the impeachment proceeding is continuing. Under pressure, the president has visibly lost some of his composure. It was during the visit of the Finnish president that Donald Trump was unleashed against the Democrats, the whistleblower and the media.

With our correspondent in Washington, Anne Corpet

For 17 minutes in the Oval Office, alongside a Finnish president who rolled his eyes, Donald Trump has engaged in a furious diatribe. He accused Adam Shiff, the chairman of the impeachment investigation commission, of being a traitor. He only calls him Shifty Schiff, Schiff the Sneaky.

The president found that the whistleblower had recounted flawed facts and that those who had informed him were spies. He ended his performance by vituperating against the press, the media that they consider corrupt and that he once again qualified as an enemy of the people.

And as if that were not enough, the US president repeated his complaints a little later at a joint press conference with the Finnish president.

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He this time insulted his rival Joe Biden whom he described as a cool-headed scammer and said that Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democratic majority in the House, was distributing the assignments as if they were small. cakes.

Meanwhile the Democrats continue their investigative work. And they do not intend to be impressed by the rebuffs of the White House host or his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who announced that the State Department employees would not attend the convocations scheduled this week. And the chairman of the Intelligence Committee did not appreciate.

" Any attempt by the Secretary of State, the President or anyone to interfere with Congress's ability to summon witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the Congress's legal jurisdiction ," Adam Schiff warned.

The House of Representatives has given the White House and the State Department until Friday to deliver the required documents.