Trump jokes: Pence is too interested in news, keeps asking if I’ve been impeached

President Trump joked on Saturday that Vice President Pence begins each day by asking if Trump has been “impeached yet.”

“Lately he’s showing a particularly keen interest in the news these days. He is asking ‘has he been impeached yet?’ I don’t like that,” Trump said at the annual Gridiron Club dinner, according to Voice of America’s Steve Herman.

On @VP: “I reallly am very proud to call him The Apprentice. But lately he’s showing a particularly keen interest in the news these days. He is asking has he been impeached yet? I don’t like that.”

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) March 3, 2018

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Some House Democrats have moved in the past year to bring impeachment articles against Trump, though none have picked up the support needed to advance.

At the same time, Trump has battled a special counsel investigation into whether his campaign conspired with Russia to help sway the 2016 presidential election and the possibility that he obstructed justice in the probe.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and appeared to double down on that claim on Saturday.

“You can’t be impeached when there’s no crime,” he said. “Put that down!”

If a president is impeached, it is the vice president that takes over, meaning that Pence is next in line for the presidency.