President Trump on Thursday called Democrats “pirates” for pursuing his impeachment — saying they’re only out to get him because they know they can’t beat him at the ballot box.

“It’s a disgrace to our country. It’s another witch hunt, here we go again. It’s Adam Schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like pirates, whatever you want to call them. It really is a disgrace. It’s a terrible thing for our country,” he said as he arrived at Joint Base Andrews after spending the week at the United Nations General Assembly.

Democrats, he contended, can’t get anything done because they are obsessed with impeaching him over his phone call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the president discussed a corruption probe involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

“They can’t do any work, they’re frozen, the Democrats are going to lose the election. They know it, that’s why they’re doing it, and it should never be allowed, what’s happened to this president,” he said.

The commander-in-chief then rattled off his accomplishments while in office that came despite the Dems’ opposition.

“I’ve done just about more than any president in his two-and-a-half years in office. I think very few could compare to what we’ve done for the military, the economy. We have the best economy anywhere in the world by far. We’ve rebuilt our military. We’ve done so many things that are so incredible with tax cuts and regulation, and I have to put up with Adam Schiff on an absolutely perfect phone call to the new president of Ukraine,” he said, referring to the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating a whistleblower’s complaint about the call.

“That was a perfect call. But Adam Schiff doesn’t talk about Joe Biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from Ukraine and then millions of dollars from China, walking away in a quick meeting, walking away with millions of dollars,” Trump continued.

“He doesn’t talk about Joe Biden firing a prosecutor, and if that prosecutor is not fired, he’s not going to give them money from the United States of America. They don’t talk about that. My call was perfect. The president yesterday of Ukraine said there was no pressure put on him whatsoever, none whatsoever, and he said it loud and clear for the press.”

Joe Biden, as vice president, told Ukraine in 2016 that the US could cancel $1 billion in loan guarantees unless it dumped top prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who had been accused of slow-walking corruption probes.

Shokin, who was voted out of office by Ukraine’s Parliament, had earlier been looking into Burisma Holding, an energy company that gave Hunter Biden a seat on its board, paying him up to $50,000 a month.

Shokin’s replacement, Yuri Lutsenko, continued the investigation into Burisma and concluded there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden or his son.

“What these guys, Democrats, are doing to this country is a disgrace and it shouldn’t be allowed. There should be a way of stopping it, maybe legally through the courts, but they’re going to tie up our country,” he said, adding that other issues were being ignored.

“We can’t talk about gun regulation, we can’t talk about anything because, frankly, they are so tied up, they’re so screwed up, nothing gets done except when I do it,” he said.

The House has passed legislation on expanded background checks for gun buyers, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he won’t bring the bills to the floor unless he knows Trump will sign them, and the president has not committed to that.

The president also blamed Democrats for illegal immigration, and contended that he was “using Mexico” to combat the problem.

“I’m using Mexico to protect our border because the Democrats won’t change loopholes in asylum. When you think of that, and I tell you, I want to thank Mexico [for the] 27,000 soldiers they have. But think of how bad that is, think of it. We use Mexico because the Democrats won’t fix our broken immigration system, we need their votes,” he said.

“If we don’t get their votes, we can’t do it. The Republicans are all on board. They want to fix it but the Democrats won’t do it. They don’t want to talk about infrastructure, they don’t want to talk about lowering drug prices, they don’t want to talk about anything because they’re fixated on this, and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi has been hijacked by the radical left, and everybody knows it. Thank you,” Trump concluded, before walking off to Marine One for the trip to the White House, without taking reporters’ questions.

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