House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday ripped into Democrats for voting to impeach President Trump, asserting that they lowered the bar for ousting future presidents and damaged the Constitution with the “weakest, thinnest and fastest impeachment in US history.”

“I feel it was a defeat to the Constitution, that the [bar for] impeachment would become so low that you didn’t read the Constitution,” the California Republican told reporters during a Capitol Hill press briefing.

He said the standard for impeachment should be “overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan,” and chastised Speaker Nancy Pelosi for agreeing to launch proceedings after insisting earlier in the year that she did not favor impeachment.

“What I watched last night, the only bipartisan vote was against impeachment. A Democrat who’s actually running for president voted present,” he said, referring to Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

McCarthy also told Fox Business that if Pelosi refused to forward the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, as she has threatened to do unless she’s assured the trial would be fair, “that’s abuse of power.”

“She cannot hold onto [the articles] forever, that’s abuse of power. But it’s just an acknowledgment from the speaker that their impeachment is so weak that it’s the — it’s the weakest, thinnest, and fastest impeachment in US history,” he told the network.

He also rapped Pelosi for declining to take questions about Republicans’ objections to the proceedings during her own press briefing earlier Thursday.

“The question you probably wanted to ask was to the speaker. Unfortunately, she would not take any questions when it came to impeachment,” he said.

“I would think if Nancy Pelosi thought impeachment was so important that she had to put this before the American public … the press conference the day after impeachment — that she has weekly — I thought she would have welcomed questions about impeachment,” McCarthy said. “Unfortunately, she told you they were Republican talking points and she would not take your questions. I never thought a speaker would act that way.

“I guess, the only thing I could take from that is she’s embarrassed of it, she understands how weak it is, she understands her own criteria was not met, constitutionally it was not met, she probably failed on all parts,” he said.

Asked about Trump’s suggestion during a rally Wednesday night that the late Michigan Rep. John Dingell might have been condemned to hell, McCarthy would not comment on the president’s remark, which drew condemnation from Dingell’s widow, Dearborn Rep. Debbie Dingell.

But he did praise Dingell, calling him “a friend.”

“I knew John Dingell. I know Debbie Dingell. I served with them both. I think they’re both very good individuals. I think they served — John served his country very well, very proud,” he said about Dingell’s military service and long career in Congress.

“I think he made a great contribution to America. We may differ philosophically and sometimes in principles, but I considered him a friend.”

And he said he was not concerned by the retirement of conservative North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, one of Trump’s most fervent House backers, predicting he would be replaced by a Republican.

“Those who are afraid about Republican retirements, I would not be. A Republican is going to replace Mark Meadows,” he said.

McCarthy also vowed to do whatever he could to help Senate Republicans prepare for Trump’s impeachment trial.

”We will do anything senators need if they want information. We have a lot of members that spent a lot of time on this,” he said.

The House on Wednesday night voted almost entirely along party lines to impeach Trump following a rancorous, daylong debate — making him just the third president in US history to suffer the congressional rebuke.

The historic vote sets up a showdown in the GOP-led Senate, where Republicans have said there is virtually no chance Trump would be convicted and removed from office.

The back-to-back votes came after 8 p.m. on two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power and the other for obstruction of Congress.

The article to impeach on abuse of power passed 230-197, with Gabbard voting “present.”

Two Democrats — Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey and Collin Peterson of Minnesota — broke ranks and voted with all Republicans against impeachment.

The vote to impeach on obstruction of Congress passed 229-198, with Gabbard again voting “present.”

Three Democrats — Van Drew, Peterson and Maine’s Jared Golden — voted with all Republicans against the charge.

Trump’s accusers charge that he abused his power when he asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic primary candidate Joe Biden and his son while Trump was withholding a promised White House meeting and critical military aid for the US ally.

Defending Trump, Republicans argued that he was wary of corruption in Ukraine and said that since most of the US aid was ultimately released, no harm was done.

Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, calling the call “perfect” and impeachment “a hoax.”

“Pelosi feels her phony impeachment HOAX is so pathetic she is afraid to present it to the Senate, which can set a date and put this whole SCAM into default if they refuse to show up! The Do Nothings are so bad for our Country!” he tweeted Thursday.