In the past week and a half since his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump has brought forward a wide array of responses, rebuttals, and contradictory claims that have caught the attention of all individuals who have followed these proceedings, domestically and internationally. Just two days ago, Trump admitted while interviewing for a Geraldo Rivera podcast that he had intentionally sent his attorney Rudy Guiliani to procure “Damaging information about his political opponents,” despite adamantly denying this claim during the period of an impeachment inquiry.

Journalist Rivera asks, “Was it strange to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine, your personal lawyer? Are you sorry you did that?” In response, Trump says he had no regrets at all in regards to sending Guiliani to Ukraine, claiming that his attorney is a “crime fighter.”

These claims line up with the statements he made to Ukraine’s President in a July 25, 2019 phone call, but directly contradict the statement he made in November of 2019 during an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. He is quoted in this interview streamed online, saying, “No, I didn’t direct him, but he is a warrior, he is a warrior.” When O’Reilly inquired what reason Trump’s attorney had to be in Ukraine at that time, the president replied, “You have to ask that to Rudy…Rudy has other clients, other than me. He’s done a lot of work in Ukraine over the years.”

To which, a November 6, 2019, tweet from Guiliani claims he was in Ukraine to defend and disprove claims launched against his client.

The investigation I conducted concerning 2016 Ukrainian collusion and corruption, was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges, that kept changing as one after another were disproven. — Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 6, 2019

In addition to comments and statements that do not fall entirely in line with past remarks Trump has made on the record, he launched several distinct addresses to those involved in the house and senate impeachment and trial proceedings. He generously thanked Mitch McConnell’s party leadership as Senate Majority Leader (R., KY) and all his congressional supporters and legal team. Trump was sure to acknowledge Mitt Romney, the only Senate Republican who voted for his conviction, as “Failure of a Republican presidential candidate” and as someone who utilizes his devout affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints as a “religious crutch.”

He goes on to call Adam Schiff, who was the impeachment cause’s top legal defense, a “corrupt politician,” and subtly addressed Nancy Pelosi when saying he cares little for, “People who say ‘I pray for you’ when you know it’s not so.” In response to this underhanded message, Pelosi reminded Trump that regardless of the senate results, he was “impeached forever.”

It is true, despite the outcomes of the past several month’s impeachment inquiries, American politics in Washington D.C. remain as partisan as ever, and politicians in all ranks will need an intrinsic investment in bi-partisanship if America is to see 3 branches of government that hope to work in cooperation with each other any time in the near future.

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