President Donald Trump, on the verge of becoming the third US president to be impeached, sent an extraordinary letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, excoriating House Democrats and casting himself as a victim of an attempted coup.
A day before the full House is set to vote on articles of impeachment accusing him of abusing his power and obstructing lawmakers' investigations, Trump wrote in his indignant six-page missive that Democrats would come to regret their efforts when voters cast ballots next fall.
Employing falsehoods and exaggerations, he bemoaned the process as woefully broken, wildly claiming that "(m)ore due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials. "
He accused Pelosi of portraying a "false display of solemnity" during the impeachment process.
"No intelligent person believes what you are saying, " Trump wrote in the letter sent on Tuesday, adding: "History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade. "
Responding late Tuesday, Pelosi said she'd been working and only saw the "essence" of Trump's letter.
"It's really sick, " she said.
The document was a brash public display of resentments that Trump has been fostering since the start of the impeachment process. His associates say he is deeply aggrieved at the situation and views the prospect of being impeached as a stain on his legacy.
Trump and Pelosi have had a history of tense and often personal fights, which have been highlighted by the impeachment inquiry launched this fall. Their most recent White House meeting, in October, was cut short because of the insults they hurled toward each other in the Cabinet Room.
President Donald Trump, on the verge of becoming the third US president to
be impeached
,
sent
an extraordinary letter to
House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, excoriating
House
Democrats and casting himself as a victim of an attempted coup.
A day
before
the full
House
is set
to vote on articles of
impeachment
accusing him of abusing his power and obstructing lawmakers' investigations, Trump wrote in his indignant six-page missive that Democrats would
come
to regret their efforts when voters cast ballots
next
fall.
Employing falsehoods and exaggerations, he bemoaned the process as
woefully
broken,
wildly
claiming that
"
(m)ore due process
was afforded
to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.
"
He accused Pelosi of portraying a
"
false display of solemnity
"
during the
impeachment
process.
"
No intelligent person believes what you are saying,
"
Trump wrote in the letter
sent
on Tuesday, adding:
"
History will judge you
harshly
as you proceed with this
impeachment
charade.
"
Responding late Tuesday, Pelosi said she'd been working and
only
saw
the
"
essence
"
of Trump's letter.
"
It's
really
sick,
"
she said.
The document was a brash public display of resentments that Trump has been fostering since the
start
of the
impeachment
process. His associates say he is
deeply
aggrieved at the situation and views the prospect of
being impeached
as a stain on his legacy.
Trump and Pelosi have had a history of tense and
often
personal fights, which have
been highlighted
by the
impeachment
inquiry launched this fall. Their most recent White
House
meeting, in October, was
cut
short
because
of the insults they hurled toward each other in the Cabinet Room.
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