Trump impeachment news: President launches fresh attack on longstanding allies as new poll projects him losing to 2020 contenders

Donald Trump has lashed out at Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and French president Emmanuel Macron and their “delinquent countries” on Twitter, still reeling a week on from his sharp exit from a Nato summit in London at which the duo and others were filmed laughing behind his back at Buckingham Palace.

The president was also busy attacking his domestic political enemies in his latest 2020 campaign rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, last night, branding House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff “a crooked bastard” and the FBI “scum” just hours after House Democrats moved to charge him with two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

The Judiciary Committee is due to meet today to debate the articles ahead of a vote to send the matter on to the full House of Representatives as a devastating new Quinnipiac poll projects Mr Trump losing comfortably to all of the leading Democratic presidential nominees in 2020.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump officiall signed an executive order on Wednesday to designate Judaism as a nationality in the US — allowing the Trump administration better leverage over universities across the country.

The House is expecting a vote on impeachment sometime next week.

Preliminary word is that the Senate will take up the impeachment next month, with a short trial that will likely exonerate the president in the end.

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