U.S. President Donald Trump grew increasingly exasperated on Thursday as he sat in his cabin aboard Air Force One and watched television coverage of Democrats on a congressional committee accuse him of criminal behavior.
Moments after landing in Washington, the Republican Trump fired back at Democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry for having pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a leading Democratic rival in the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden.
The inquiry is casting a new pall over his presidency just months after he emerged from the dark cloud cast by special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether he colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.
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