Tapes from Trump's interviews with Bob Woodward have been made public.
Trump bragged that he was the toughest president to face impeachment.
The man had his thumb in his mouth. Trump said that Clinton took it very hard.
Donald Trump bragged about how tough he was when he was being impeached.
CNN obtained audio files from Bob Woodward's conversations with Trump in which the president compared his own impeachment to that of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
There were 20 meetings between Woodward and Trump from 2016 to 2020. Bob Woodward's audiobook, "The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Trump," will be released next month.
Nobody else is as tough as me. Trump said in the clip that nobody was tougher than him.
I was asked about impeachment. "You act like you just won a race when you're under impeachment," Trump said.
The man had his thumb in his mouth. Trump said that Clinton took it very hard. I just do things.
The US has never had a president impeached twice. He was impeached in December for his involvement in the Ukraine scandal, in which he was accused of trying to get Volodymyr Zelenskyy to interfere in the 2020 election. Congress charged Trump with inciting an insurrection after he was impeached again. He was found not guilty on both occasions.
There were threats of impeachment against four presidents. Clinton and Andrew Johnson were impeached before Trump.
Nixon resigned from office before the House could impeach him for his role in the Watergate scandal.
Clinton denied under oath that he had an affair with Lewinsky. Clinton admitted that he had been having an affair with Lewinsky. Clinton was impeached by Congress in 1998. After being impeached, he was acquitted by the Senate.
The representatives for Trump and Clinton did not reply immediately.
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