Debate over articles of impeachment against a U.S. president begins for only the third time in history.
as an attempted partisan coup and urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to call off the vote. Congressional Republicans called the Intelligence Committee investigation"flawed" and"defective," in the words of Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma.
“The entire circus has been politically motivated from the very beginning," said Cole, the top Republican on the Rules Committee. Only two other presidents have faced Senate impeachment trials – Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999 – and neither was removed from office. Former President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 before a House vote on articles of impeachment.Trump sent Pelosi a six-page letter expressing his “most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade” and urging her not to hold a vote on"this impeachment fantasy.
The president said more due process was provided during the Salem witch trials than during this inquiry, which he called “nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup.”
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