Trump defends her personal attacks on Pelosi: "Have you heard what she said about me?"

"All they want is to try to redo the Mueller report," said Trump, answering questions from White House reporters as he was leaving for Tokyo. "They were very unhappy with the Mueller report. They want to redo the Mueller report. It's over. There is no redo. They lost. It's very clear. There was no collusion. There was no obstruction so there was no redoing.

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Pressed by White House White House chief Jonathan Karl to explain what he was trying to do with his personal attacks on Pelosi this week, the president retorted, insisting that she had thrown it when she accused Trump of covering up.

Pelosi also said Thursday that Trump's family or members of his administration had to organize "an intervention".

"When you say" a personal attack ", did you hear what she said about me well before I pursued her?" Asked Trump. "Have you heard?" She made horrible statements, "She knows they're not real."

"She said terrible things, so I just said that," he added. "Listen, do you think Nancy is the same girl she was?" She's not. "

On Thursday night, he tweeted a segment of Fox Business's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show showing a Pelosi video mounted earlier in the day titled "Pelosi Stammers at a Press Conference".

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The video was mounted to highlight the moment when Pelosi stopped or hesitated during his speech.

A separate video on Twitter has been changed to give the impression that Pelosi misinterpreted his remarks in a speech to a Washington think tank on Wednesday.

This prompted Pelosi's daughter, Christine, to tweet about the tweet "Republicans and their conservative allies have pumped this despicable fake meme for years!" They are now caught. #FactCheck: Madam Speaker does not even drink alcohol!

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On Friday, she was asked, "Is your relationship with Nancy Pelosi so bad that she's too personal – and some of the altered videos are on the air – is that going too far?" Trump said. : "Well, I do not know about videos. "

While touting his merits as president, Trump said he thought Pelosi "was not helping the country" and called the Democrats "obstructionist".

"They are hurting our country," said Trump. "We can enact as many different bills now, but all they want is to investigate because they have failed with Robert Mueller and the Mueller report."

Trump defended his decision to allow Attorney General William Barr, whom he described as "great man", with the ability to declassify information related to the origins of the investigation into Russia.

"He's a great gentleman and a highly respected man," said Trumps about Barr. "They will be able to see how this hoax, how the hoax or the witch hunt began and why. It was an attempted coup d'etat or attempted kidnapping of the President of the United States. This should never have happened to anyone else.

"People have been asking me to declassify for a long time, but I decided to do it," Trump added. "You're going to learn a lot, I hope it's going to be nice, but maybe it will not be."

Trump denied having approved the move in order to avenge his political opponents.

"It's not profitable," he said. "I do not care about recovery. I think it's very important that our country discovers what has happened. "

The president predicted that his approval rate could almost double if the press reported "good serious news," such as the economy or the reduction in the cost of prescription drugs.

"If you give good serious news like you're supposed to, I'd probably be 70 or 75 on the sole basis of the economy," he said.