Trump speaks to the nation: "Impeachment was a shame. Pelosi is bad, Schiff malicious"

• Trump, impeachment: "We have passed a terrible test"
• Usa, impeachment: the Senate acquitted President Trump
• State of the Union, Trump across the board: the best is yet to come. And Pelosi tears up the discussion

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"It was a shame. A great injustice for three years carried out by lying people. I don't know if another president could have overcome this situation": Donald Trump said speaking to the nation on live TV from the White House, after the his acquittal from the charges that led to impeachment.

"They knew I was innocent, but they wanted to inflict political damage on me," he added, recalling how even before the Ukrainagate there had been "witch hunts" by Russiagate. "And Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party raised millions of dollars to harm me."

"This isn't a press conference, it's not a speech, it's a party," continued the US president. "I was treated badly, but I didn't do anything wrong." There was no shortage of thrust to Nancy Pelosi: the speaker of the Chamber "is a horrible person, she wanted impeachment for some time, she said she prayed for me, but on the contrary" said Trump, who then called "a bad person" his Senate inquisitor, Democrat Adam Schiff.

"If I hadn't fired Comey, maybe I wouldn't be here"
"It was a disgrace what happened. A great injustice carried out by lying people, by corrupt policemen, made of leaks" continued the tycoon, which did not spare a direct reference also to the former director of the FBI : "If I hadn't fired James Comey, which was a disaster, I probably wouldn't be here right now."

"There are people who use religion as a lifesaver," "they've never used it before, I've never heard it before," but "you know, when it comes to a defeated presidential candidate, things can happen. when they suffer such heavy defeats, "concluded Trump, referring to Mitt Romney, the only Republican who voted against him on an indictment.