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'Lock them up'? Trump turns his attention to enemies of his state
Analysis: At the president's first rally since the attorney general announced he wouldn't be prosecuted, Trump went on offense against Democrats, media.
March 29, 2019, 7:29 AM EDT
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump identified the enemies of his state Thursday night.
At a raucous campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. — his first since Attorney General William Barr reported that the president would not be prosecuted for obstruction of justice and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had not established the existence of a conspiracy between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian operatives — Trump listed them by name and occupation.
"Little pencil-neck Adam Schiff," Trump said of the House Intelligence Committee chairman, who continues to oversee a Russia probe as the president's campaign seeks his resignation or expulsion from Congress.
"Jerry Nadler," he said, invoking the name of the House Judiciary chairman, who is looking into the obstruction-of-justice allegations for which Mueller, in the still-secret report to Barr, laid out evidence for and against concluding the president had committed criminal conduct.
"I have beat him many times, and now I have to come here and beat him again," Trump said of the New York Democrat.
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