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NATO Summit 2019: Donald Trump and Jens Stoltenberg press conference; ENGLAND: London: Regent's Park: Winfield House: INT Donald Trump (US President) and Jens Stoltenberg (NATO Secretary General) press conference (following their breakfast meeting ahead of the NATO summit) SOT part 5 of 12. Q Mr. President, are you concerned at all that the impeachment inquiry back home - Congress is preparing to impeach you - that it weakens your position, as the President, here at NATO? PRESIDENT TRUMP: I don’t think so. You know, I know most of the leaders. I get along with them. It’s a hoax. The impeachment thing is a hoax. It’s turned out to be a hoax. It’s done for purely political gain. They’re going to see whether or not they can do something in 2020, because otherwise they’re going to lose. It’s turning out - and you see it better than anybody. I read something in your paper the other day that it’s having a reverse effect, which some people thought it might have; I didn’t know. But I can tell you, the districts where I won, and then they had an election in between mine - but they had an election and other people got in; Democrats got in - those districts are leaning very big toward me. Now, I wasn’t in the race in 2018. So it’s not really the same thing. And a lot of my voters say they’re not going to vote unless Trump is actually in the race. But it’s really having a tremendous impact on - and a lot of Democrats, I hear, are very upset. They just got back from their district, and I hear they’re very upset. The impeachment witch hunt - it’s really just a continuation of the hoax that’s been taking place for the last three years. And I think you know that. Q And does it cast a cloud, though, as you’re trying to negotiate on behalf of the United States? PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I would say this: I think it’s very unpatriotic of the Democrats to put on a performance where they do that. I do. I think it - I think it’s a bad thing for our country. I...