Speaking after a meeting with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Donald Trump slammed Rep. Adam Schiff, suggesting the California Democrat would be punished severely for making up the president’s Ukraine transcript if he lived in Guatemala.

“It’s a total sham,” Trump said. “When you have a guy like shifty Shiff go out and make up a statement that I made, he said ‘this is what I said,’ but I never said it. He totally made it up. In Guatemala they handle things much tougher than that.”

Schiff has been in Trump’s crosshairs since the House Democrat summarized the July 25th call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump is expected to be impeached in the House on Wednesday and has been his combative self, releasing a scathing four-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday slamming her for what he considers a “partisan impeachment crusade.”

Senate Republicans plan on calling Schiff and the whistleblower to testify. Sens. Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul have all come to the president’s defense in the past month.

Twitter was sickened:

Trump just said he wants to handle Schiff the way they would "in Guatemala" and I'm not sure what that means but I think a lot of people will take it as a reference to execution

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 17, 2019

"In Guatemala they handle things differently than this." Donald J Trump just now on @MSNBC. DID HE JUST THREATEN THE LIFE OF REP. SCHIFF?!?!

— El of LA (@ElofLA) December 17, 2019

Stand up now! You know that the POTUS saying he wishes he could handle Schiff like they do in Guatemala is a threat and that it brings out violence by those already unstable. If you don’t push back now against our POTUS wishing he could have Schiff killed, we have lost control

— Lisa Helvey-Poole (@HelveyPoole) December 17, 2019

WATCH:

Trump suggests Adam Schiff should face severe punishment for paraphrasing his Zelensky call during a hearing: "In Guatemala they handle things much tougher than that." pic.twitter.com/bUMrsKJpyv

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 17, 2019