{"id":29485,"date":"2019-12-18T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/trump-sends-angry-6-page-letter-to-nancy-pelosi-over-impeachment-charade\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:20:04","slug":"trump-sends-angry-6-page-letter-to-nancy-pelosi-over-impeachment-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/trump-sends-angry-6-page-letter-to-nancy-pelosi-over-impeachment-charade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sends Angry 6-Page Letter to Nancy Pelosi Over &#8216;Impeachment Charade&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0is feeling pressed\u2014and understandably so.<\/p>\n<p>The president has penned an angry six-page letter to\u00a0Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), accusing her and House Democrats of &#8220;subverting America&#8217;s democracy&#8221; by pursuing impeachment. The letter was sent Tuesday, a day before the House is expected to vote on\u00a0two charges against Trump, who is accused of extorting a foreign power to investigate a political rival. According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b5ca596edb800391679d9d75162b73ea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>, the majority of the House is in favor of impeachment, setting the stage for Trump becoming\u00a0the\u00a0third U.S. president to ever be impeached.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history,&#8221; Trump wrote in the letter, before reiterating his claims of innocence. &#8220;&#8230;\u00a0You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment! By proceeding\u00a0with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The charges against Trump stem from his July phone call with\u00a0Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he urged to investigate\u00a0Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Trump froze\u00a0nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine shortly\u00a0the phone call took place\u2014a detail that sparked allegations of a quid-pro-quo offering. The first article of impeachment charges Trump with abuse of power, while the second charges him with obstruction of Congress; the latter is based on his refusal to comply with documents requests <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2019\/09\/nancy-pelosi-impeachment-president-donald-trump\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during the impeachment inquiry<\/a>, as well as blocking certain testimony. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and told Pelosi that she and the Democrats would be on the wrong side of history if they did not halt the impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<p>&#8220;It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People. While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;&#8230;You are the ones interfering in America\u2019s election. You are the ones subverting America\u2019s Democracy. You are the ones Obstructing Justice &#8230; I have no doubt the American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election. They will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<p>You can read his full letter and reactions to the missive below.<\/p>\n<p>If the House approves the articles of impeachment, as expected, the matter will then go to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it will likely end in an acquittal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Goes without saying re Trump&#8217;s letter, but delegitimizing the House impeachment is delegitimizing the Congress, the constitution. It&#8217;s a new argument for the GOP, an unscrupulous one, and one only acceptable in the Trump era. House GOP is treading into really dangerous ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidJollyFL\/status\/1207051954146435072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An innocent man does not write a letter or obstruct the process of impeachment. An innocent man wants to prove his innocence by allowing the process to play out and provides everything needed to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alyssa_Milano\/status\/1207042088258244609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>LOL. All the more satisfying that Trump knows what a dishonor tomorrow will be. At long last he will start to be held accountable. More to come! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MhkQETTF8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/MhkQETTF8e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Amy Siskind \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Amy_Siskind) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Amy_Siskind\/status\/1207044034746896384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s abuses of power that will shock future generations. It&#8217;s his obvious unfitness for office, displayed in letters like this one, and the way the Republican Party rationalized it as authenticity and plain-spokenness <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2UCaJacyoZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/2UCaJacyoZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezraklein\/status\/1207056878859014145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Trump can try to distract us with an unhinged letter, but Americans can see through it. If the President has nothing to hide, why is Mitch McConnell so determined to block key witnesses from coming forward? Why don\u2019t they want the American people to see all the evidence? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ww2sVTonnx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ww2sVTonnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisVanHollen\/status\/1207052647762661377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Dear media, this isn\u2019t a \u201cscathing\u201d letter from Trump to Pelosi. It\u2019s the ravings of delusional, paranoid f**kwad. Please label as such. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b8gezOLuUT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/b8gezOLuUT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 SeanKentComedy (@seankent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seankent\/status\/1207035369163837440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>What strikes me as unusual about Trump&#8217;s letter to Pelosi is that he uses two spaces after each period.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliaioffe\/status\/1207057034308456448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Finally read the Trump letter to Pelosi, and am reminded of her comment in January, &#8220;I&#8217;m a mother of five, grandmother of nine. I know a temper tantrum when I see one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Susan Glasser (@sbg1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbg1\/status\/1207055598522716161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>If Trump truly wanted this colicky letter \u201cfor the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record,\u201d he should just testify under oath. But he is a bullying coward, so he wrote this six-page tweet instead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFpeAtvnN5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/fFpeAtvnN5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamilSmith\/status\/1207049638890500103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When you read that Trump letter\u2014unhinged, deranged ramblings of a narcissist with a bizarre victimhood complex\u2014it&#8217;s hard not to think about how lucky we are (so far) that he hasn&#8217;t faced a major national security crisis like 9\/11. But to be clear, the letter is completely bonkers<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianklaas\/status\/1207053541334044672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2019\/12\/donald-trump-sends-nancy-pelosi-letter-over-impeachment\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u00a0is feeling pressed\u2014and understandably so. The president has penned an angry six-page letter to\u00a0Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), accusing her and House Democrats of &#8220;subverting America&#8217;s democracy&#8221; by pursuing impeachment. The letter was sent Tuesday, a day before the House is expected to vote on\u00a0two charges against Trump, who is accused of extorting a foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,112,572,262,5,2951,7,8,285,1080,93,1097],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-govt","category-dfp-politics-other","category-donald-trump","category-featured","category-impeach","category-music","category-news","category-politics","category-presidents","category-tier-one","category-twitter-reactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29487,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29485\/revisions\/29487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}