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WSJ: Trump Denounces House Democrats as Impeachment Vote Looms
Washington,
December 17, 2019
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Trump Denounces House Democrats as Impeachment Vote Looms President Trump denounced House Democrats on the eve of the planned impeachment vote, calling efforts to remove him from office an abuse of power that amounted to an “illegal partisan coup.” In a public letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), Mr. Trump said he was writing to express his “strongest and most powerful protest” against the impeachment effort. Mr. Trump, who has regularly attacked the impeachment probe since its inception, summed up his objections in six pages of raw, personal language.“You are scarcely concealing your hatred of me,” he wrote to Mrs. Pelosi. Democrats said the letter underscored their criticisms of Mr. Trump’s temperament, and they defended their impeachment plans. “This letter is an embarrassment to the office,” tweeted Rep. Don Beyer (D., Va.), saying “no amount of temper tantrums” will discourage the House from what it sees as its constitutional duty. Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) called the letter “completely insane.” |