Trump fury grows against rising impeachment storm

President Donald Trump raged against impeachment Wednesday, tweeting that the process was "BULLSHIT" and calling for the lead investigator in Congress to be charged with treason.

Trump -- accused of leaning on Ukraine's president to dig up dirt on one of his main 2020 election rivals -- fired the swearword at opposition Democrats.

Adam Schiff, the Democrat leading the impeachment probe in the lower chamber of Congress, told reporters there is a "real sense of urgency" to press forward.

Trump fought back with language that would once have been inconceivable for a president, including his claim late Tuesday on Twitter that this is "not an impeachment, it is a COUP."
While meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the White House, Trump said Schiff was "a low life" who should be arrested for "treason."
After keeping pronouncements mostly to Twitter over the last week, Trump used his press appearance with Niinisto to let rip in front of the cameras, calling his treatment "a disgrace."
Trump has likened the whistleblower to a spy and called for his or her identity to be made public, although by law whistleblowers are protected. He has also retweeted a warning that his removal from office could trigger "civil war."
Schiff on Wednesday called Trump's comments about the whistleblower a "blatant effort to intimidate witnesses."
The State Department's inspector general was due to brief congressional committees Wednesday on what it said were documents "related to the State Department and Ukraine."
Pompeo himself risks greater pressure after the Democratic heads of the three investigating congressional committees said his being in on the phone call made him "a fact witness."