Once again, the house of representatives is set to vote today on impeaching Donald Trump.
It's expected to pass.
It will trigger a trial in the Senate.
Yesterday, Donald Trump wrote a bizarre rambling six page letter to Nancy Pelosi.
The letter was riddled with lies and panic, and it is a document that historians should
clearly be looking at for decades to come.
I've read this thing a bunch of times because it's so out there.
It's so strange.
It's so odd.
I'm not going to read the entire letter to you, but I want to look at some sections with
you.
One thing about it is that it does at least seem to be written in, in Trump's style in
that it has that random capitalization of words in the middle of sentences and lots
of exclamation points.
Much like in Donald Trump's Twitter posts, Donald Trump writing, 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.
This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power, completely
untrue by Democrat lawmakers, Capitol L lawmakers, unequaled.
In nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history, Donald Trump pulls out
this idea that there are, um, that there is something unconstitutional about what is going
on.
And then in the second paragraph, Donald Trump goes on to say, the articles of impeachment
introduced by the house judiciary are not recognizable under any standard of constitutional
theory, interpretation or jurisprudence.
They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.
You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment exclamation point.
So again, uh, exclamation points, a less common punctuation device in presidential letters,
and of course, exclamation points in serious writing of this type are assigned that you
can't really make your arguments with logic, reason, and vocabulary, so you throw an exclamation
points.
But substantively, Trump again, pulls out this idea that there are no crimes or misdemeanors
in articles of impeachment.
Therefore you can't impeach.
That's wrong.
Impeachment is a political process.
It doesn't require criminal wrongdoing.
But a recent house judiciary report does actually accuse the precedent of committing federal
crimes.
As I discussed with you yesterday.
Then the letter goes on to attack a Joe Biden.
As strange as that is saying, quote, you know full well that vice president Biden used his
office on $1 billion of USAID money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was
digging into the company, paying his son millions of dollars.
You know this because Biden bragged about it on video.
Biden openly stated, I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.
I looked at them and said, I'm not.
I'm leaving in six hours.
If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.
Well, son of a bitch, he got fired and Trump goes on to say, now you are trying to impeach
me by falsely accusing me of doing what Joe Biden has admitted.
He actually did.
Now we've already talked about this.
You can disagree with the decision that was made.
You can say, Joe Biden shouldn't have been part of that, but Biden was there at the direction
of Barack Obama as part of an international group that was involved and to even remotely
liken it to Donald Trump's sending Rudy, his personal lawyer, to demand smears against
Biden to help Trump win an election.
It's a patently ridiculous comparison.
Then Trump attacks Adam Schiff, head of the house intelligence committee saying, Congressman
Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day.
Even going so far as to fraudulent, we make up out of thin air.
My conversation with president Zelenskyi of Ukraine and read this fantasy language and
read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me, his shameless lies
and deception dating all the way back to the Russia hoax is one of the main reasons we
are here today.
Of course, shift didn't lie or cheat.
No person or elected official is perfect, but the smear campaign against Schiff is absurd.
Trump then goes on to talk about how great minorities are doing, and this is where the
rambling starts with really long paragraphs.
Trump saying, you and your party, you're desperate to distract from America's extraordinary economy,
incredible jobs, boom, record, stock market, soaring, confidence and flourishing citizens.
Your party simply cannot compete with our record, 7 million new jobs, the lowest ever
unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans are rebuilt.
Military, a completely reformed VA with choice and accountability for our great veterans.
More than 170 new federal judges and two Supreme court justices on and on and on.
Then Trump goes on to accuse Nancy Pelosi and Democrats of being the ones interfering
with elections.
A classic move of projection saying you are the ones interfering in America's elections.
You are the ones subverting America's democracy.
You are the ones Capitol.
Oh, obstructing justice.
You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish, personal,
political and partisan gain.
And this goes on and on for six pages.
Maybe my favorite line of the entire thing is where Trump says more due process was afforded
to those accused in the Salem witch trials.
And then lastly, maybe the one line I agree with from the letter Trump saying 100 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.
Although I know it's not what Trump meant.
I do hope we have something, uh, that in the future prevents us from ever dealing with
something like this again, whether a president is able to simply ignore checks and balances,
carry out a completely corrupted vial agenda, let's hope it never happens again.
And we can take step one by removing Trump, which I don't see.
Republicans in the Senate doing.
The letter must be archived for history.
The letter sums up Trump's total disregard for the law for conventions.
It sums up his arrogance, his delusions of grander and on some level, Trump doesn't want
to be in P impeached.
He knows the Senate is unlikely to convict.
Trump might even get a boost.
I think he knows that, but at the same time, on some level, Trump doesn't want to be a
president.
Impeached.
The letter is riddled with lies to the point of gaslighting.
It's riddled with evidence of Trump's delusions of grander, but it also is a desperate president
who doesn't want to get impeached and the letter happens to read like a monologue from
Sean Hannity's Fox news show.
I haven't looked, but it would be very unsurprising if some of this language was lifted straight
from a Hannity monologue.
But again, an innocent man doesn't write a letter with exclamation points attacking everyone,
nor do they obstruct the investigation.
An innocent man would want to prove their innocence.
They would cooperate.
That is not what we are seeing here on this historic day.
Let me know what you expect.
What do you make of all this?
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