BREAKING Trump calls articles of impeachment “a completely disingenuous, baseless and meritless invention of your imagination' in long, ranting letter to Nancy Pelosi by stableford
calling the articles drawn up against him “a completely disingenuous, baseless and meritless invention of your imagination,” among other things.
“I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives,” Trump wrote in the six-page letter, salted with . “This impeachment presents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.”
The president claimed that the articles of impeachment advanced by the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees “include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.” “You have cheapened the very ugly word, impeachment!” the president declared. “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.”
"I have no doubt the American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election,” he continued. “They will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power.
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