President Donald Trump responded to the announcement of impeachment charges Tuesday by calling the accusations "ridiculous".
Trump -- who will be only the third US president to be impeached if the full House of Representatives backs the charges -- also renewed his familiar claim on Twitter that he is the victim of a "WITCH HUNT!"
Earlier, senior Democratic lawmaker Jerry Nadler announced the charges that Trump pressured Ukraine to open a corruption probe purely for the aim of embarrassing one of his 2020 reelection rivals.
"Ridiculous, and he knows that is not true," Trump tweeted.
TRUMP TO ADDRESS IMPEACHMENT CHARGES IN US SENATE TRIAL
Trump will address the two "baseless" impeachment charges Democrats presented on Tuesday during the U.S. Senate trial phase of the proceedings, the White House said.
"The President will address these false charges in the Senate and expects to be fully exonerated, because he did nothing wrong," White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
Grisham also called the impeachment articles a "partisan, gratuitous, and pathetic attempt to overthrow the Trump Administration and the results of the 2016 election."
