President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent an extraordinarily fuming, six-page personal letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, railing against what he calls an “illegal, partisan attempted coup.”
“I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record,” the president writes in the letter, even as he also acknowledges that he doesn’t expect it to actually change the outcome of Wednesday’s anticipated vote that will make him only the third U.S. president to be impeached.
“One hundred years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it and learn from it, so that it can never happen to another President again,” the letter reads.
“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,” he wrote.
The letter is a collaborated attempt by the President to vent out his much-perceived anger. It is a remarkable compilation of the president’s grievances with the process and how Pelosi has conducted herself.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, decried President Donald Trump’s open letter to her mother as “angry” and “nasty” by tweeting it, on Tuesday afternoon. She also wrote.
“Whew this angry, nasty, lying screed by President Trump to Speaker Pelosi is really concerning. We’d better pray harder for his well-being,” tweeted Christine Pelosi.
In response to the release of letter visibly disturbed CNN anchor John Avalon called the text an “unhinged rant.”
It’s clearly something he dictated at least in part because it’s got a lot of his greatest hits from his campaign speeches and elsewhere,” said Avalon. “This is the definition of not presidential. His is venting his spleen in public, but with the weight of history behind him.”
“And he’s making a series of statements that are both not true, reversals of fact, one of his classic moves, project and deflect,” continued Avalon. “We see it over here, he’s quoting certain congressmen cursing.”
Avalon then quoted the letter, and concluded, “This is the president of the United States dictating this to his staff, presumably over their objections and better judgement. This is unhinged.”
“I just want to be clear. I’ve just read through all six pages. This is unhinged,” he said during a breaking news segment on the letter. “This is an unhinged rant from the president of the United States on White House letterhead.”
In his furious letter, the president called the impeachment process a “partisan impeachment crusade” and accused Nancy Pelosi of “violating her oath of office” by pursuing them.
“You are offending Americans of faith by continually saying ‘I pray for the President,’ when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense,””It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!””You are not just after me, as President, you are after the entire Republican Party.” Trump wrote.
President Trump and Speaker Pelosi have long had a contentious relationship. Their last face-to-face meeting in October resulted in an argument which derailed the meeting.
President Trump remains under fire for allegedly asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalinski to commit to a “quid pro quo” trade with America during a July telephone call. Trump is said to have threatened to withhold military aid that had already been approved unless Zelenskiy provided the president with information on the dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter involving the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
The president is currently undergoing an impeachment hearing in connection with these allegations and, soon, may become the third American president to face impeachment in the country’s history.
