Trump sends letter to Pelosi railing against impeachment

[spanone]

President Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday condemning Democrats' handling of impeachment, stating: “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials."

The big picture: Written on White House letterhead, the letter memorializes Trump's defense on the eve of his expected impeachment. The House is set to approve articles of impeachment on Wednesday, sending them to the Senate for what is likely to be a speedy trial that ends with Trump's acquittal.

What he's saying: Trump rehashed his usual arguments against impeachment, including that Democrats are seeking revenge over their 2016 election loss and that his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was "perfect."

"There is nothing I would rather do than stop referring to your party as the Do-Nothing Democrats. Unfortunately, I don't know that you will ever give me a chance to do so," Trump wrote.

"You are the ones interfering in America's elections. You are the ones subverting America's Democracy. You are the ones Obstructing Justice. You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish, personal, political and partisan gain," he added.

LETTER AT LINK: https://www.axios.com/trump-pelosi-impeachment-letter-e8ecabf7-45cb-4375-bcc3-a5e76a015863.html

[MFM008]

1. Ive heard a number

Of people say impeachment wouldnt phase him.....
Apparently wrong.

[malaise]

23. He is terrified of being impeached

Delish!

[Pachamama]

2. The letter is insane....

He probably wrote it because it wouldn't fit on twitter....

It's crazy....

[spanone]

4. six pages of crazy BULLSHIT.

It's got too many big words for him to have written it.

[NCjack]

38. A person of higher intellect wrote the letter. Probably, Don Jr. nt

[lastlib]

41. Or a rutabaga?

This man-baby stopped generating alpha waves at least a decade ago.

The fact that he used the word "jurisprudence" in a sentence proves conclusively that someone else wrote it. That word is NOT in his vocabulary.

[NCjack]

42. Yes, it could be either. nt

[lastlib]

43. they're pretty much indistinguishable.....

...and interchangeable.....

[spanone]

66. Bwahahahahahaaa

[pangaia]

68. Actually, i don't think i have ever used it either.

[DENVERPOPS]

60. No question about that NC...

And it most certainly wasn't any of his spawn.........

[ancianita]

31. The ultimate, official projection written by a constitutional scofflaw&wannabe pro-Putin dictator.

[VMA131Marine]

51. It's basically a compilation of his tweets

[NBachers]

54. "Trump's Greatest Hits "

[VMA131Marine]

57. Well yes but it's more like

Trump’s Most Infamous Inanities

[kentuck]

3. Cry, Baby Cry

[lastlib]

39. Would the day-care director PLEEEAZE give him his binkie??

what kind of drugs do you have to do to burn your brain out that badly?? Certainly nothing FDA-approved.....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. the letter appears to be addressed to tv and MAGAts

It only went to Speaker Pelosi as a means to get it before its intended audience.

[erronis]

47. Good point. Miller and other handlers may have been provoking dumpf to provide fodder

for this letter.

Probably having some good chortles while saying "Let's see what he spews if I suggest that Nancy says you abused your power via a perfect call..."

Keep the tape running while he spews. Extract some key phrases and add them to the memo.

At the end, run it by the big boy for his "sssignature". He'll love it since it has a few of his nonsense rantings embedded.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

53. note how he contrives to accuse Pelosi of the accusations against him

Whatever committee of assholes actually wrote the letter, under Twitler's supervision, knows to usurp the main points made against him so that every mention of, for example, "abuse of power", can incite those on his side. It's the Bart Simpson, "I'm rubber, you're glue!" defense.

There will be GOPers screeching, "But what about ( Pelosi's | Democrats' ) abuse of power!"

[Perseus]

48. Agreed, this is a dangerous letter with bad intent

He is trying to rattle his audience of violent white supremacists.

Very dangerous letter, and I fear it will entice some violence.

[octoberlib]

6. He also said Pelosi was offending the Founding Fathers. Like they're all alive and well

and living in Kalamazoo or something. Nuts.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. CNN is calling it "unhinged".

[BigmanPigman]

21. An MSNBC legal analyst said that

he is having a "hissy fit". I needed to laugh today, thank you, Donny!

[SWBTATTReg]

8. More evidence of his collasping mental state, in writing no less. NT

[spanone]

10. It's riddled full of LIES...

imagine that?

[malaise]

17. He has clearly never read the Constitution

This man is insane

[MarianJack]

29. I don't think that you can get the Constitution...

...in a Little Golden Book.

RESIST!

[dalton99a]

9. It is a beautiful and perfect letter

suitable for framing in the National Archives

[H2O Man]

12. Ha!!!!!

[NBachers]

55. It will undoubtedly be on the cover of Time.

[H2O Man]

11. Recommended.

He sounds like a stable genius. Very stable.

[monmouth4]

13. I wonder if Stevie Miller wrote that for him..n/t

[MineralMan]

15. Well, Trump sure didn't write it himself.

He's incapable of maintaining anything long enough to do so.

[malaise]

18. No one else was willing to sign it

That's telling

[Johonny]

36. My guess is he dictated something, and then they "cleaned" it up for him

His version is probably even more deranged than this very funny letter.

[maryellen99]

19. Most likely KAC nt

[rurallib]

14. he was given multiple chances for himself and his hench(wo)men to

defend themselves.

[malaise]

16. This is not a sane person

This is desperate and pathetic

jackie Speier is on M$NBComcast now

[Wellstone ruled]

20. Trump did not write this POS.

Way beyond his attention span. Best guess is Scavino,and he most likely had a couple stiff drinks afterwards .

[Buns_of_Fire]

26. ...and during. nt

[Wellstone ruled]

27. The first sentence is the real clue,

use of big fifty cent words that never show up in the Orange Anus Tweets.

[sacto95834]

22. Does the Orange Thing think...

this letter will now stop impeachment? If anything it strengthens the case for it.

[spanone]

25. These Lies will go into the National Archives and they will be exposed for the lies they are...

if not now, eventually.

[essme]

24. I am a middle school librarian

and that sounds exactly like the ranting of a middle schooler who has been told that they cannot go to the mall with their friends.

[manhattan123]

28. They better up his meds...

If it wasn't so potentially dangerous it would be fascinating watching the mental breakdown of an American president happening in real time before our eyes. That letter is an unhinged hissy fit.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Terminal Insanity

and i don't mean railroad stations

[Journeyman]

32. What is the video of Biden and his "remorse" which Trump alludes to? . . .

Anyone shed some light on that?

[spanone]

33. 'LIES'

[Johonny]

34. People say that he's not mentally ill, but that's not the letter from a sane man

And, of course, we probably should see the letter he wanted to send before his staff fixed it up for him.

[sprinkleeninow]

35. I only wish the House investigated and then held off sending articles to the Senate.

Sitting on the process, waiting for much more to come down the pike. No speedy trial which is what the pubes are chomping at the bit for.

But, what do I know...

[Leghorn21]

37. "You paid Stormy big bucks to spank your butt

Madame Speaker does it for free!!"

--a tweeter

[LisaM]

40. The accused in the Salem trials were locked up in what were de facto dungeons while waiting trial

and in many cases their property was seized (much of it never to come back) by the authorities. They were strip searched and examined for signs on their bodies - like a mole, or a burn mark. Most were picked up on the flimsiest of charges, and many of those who were hanged were convicted on spectral evidence.


What possible comparison can he be drawing here?

[yaesu]

45. he used that same old example he stole from Fox weeks ago, the guy doesn't even have an imagination

[yaesu]

44. Why is he so upset, I thought his bestest buddies in the Senate were going to make his boo boo

all better

[yonder]

46. "100 years from now, when people look back at this affair..."

any small, ailing and declining survivors of that post-apolyptic world will have long understood what their forebearers inaction brought upon themselves.

[Gothmog]

49. Neal Katyal-Trump letter boomerangs, actually explains why he must testify in Senate.

Link to tweet

[DinahMoeHum]

50. Baby! Baby!! Waaah!!! WAAAH!!!

Baby! Baby!! Waaah!!! WAAAH!!!

[11 Bravo]

52. The boy just ain't right.

Scared, stupid, petulant, and having access to the nuclear codes sounds problematic to me.

[AlexSFCA]

56. the letter is not for Pelosi, it's for the base

everything he says is for the base only. He is laser focused on his base in PA, WI and MI. To us it looks stupid, the base loves it. I hope whoever wins the nomination, would spend 90% of their time in PA, WI, MI, FL and AZ. One short visit to solidly blue states will be more than enough. This was a big flaw in Clinton’s campaign, in order to overcome voter suppression, hacking, fake news, fbi, etc. focus should have been on those states, traveling across WI, for a week at a time. Speaking everywhere and laser tailor the message to that specific community, never generic copy/paste statements.

[stillcool]

58. "I know you are, but what am I?"

such a child-like buffoon....and the epitome of the Arrogant American. As are the rest of the GOP.

[catbyte]

59. Wow. That letter should be in every Psych 101 textbook as a perfect example of projection.

And of the concept of the consciousness of guilt.

[Rabrrrrrr]

61. I can't imagine any other president in our history writing like this, nor using so many !!!!

Christ, the guy's unhinged.

I've worked with people who are mentally unbalanced, and this is the kind of over-the-top shit they would email when they felt they were being wronged (but were only being told that they are wrong about something, which they objectively were).

Normal people don't write shit like this.

And it's absolutely unpresidential. To think that this letter is now a permanent record of something an actual president of the US actually said. Fucking Embarrasing.

[Goodheart]

65. We had Jefferson, we had Madison, we had Lincoln, and now this.

One of those is not like the others.

[DallasNE]

62. Suspect KellyAnn Conway Wrote This

An alternative fact word salad - her specialty.

[47of74]

63. Ms. Pelosi has a lot more self restraint than I do.

I'd be taking the Bill Baxley route here in my response to fuck face if he sent me anything like that.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

64. It's so very Presidential.......

NOT! It's a 6 page screed of a whiny 4th grader...……..

[coeur_de_lion]

67. Festivus for the rest of us. These are his grievances of the year.