Trump Burns Dems in Scathing Letter: 'You Are Bringing Pain and Suffering to Our Republic' for Selfish Gain
By: Tyler O’Neil
Thank you President Trump for your very fine letter to Pelosi and the democrats. It is well sai and right on. The points about the bigots running impeachment and how baseless it is and his hi points about our economy and his accomplishments were proper and correct. We his base openly support and endorse his rhetorical war against the progressive left and house leadership.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump sent a scathing letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accusing the Democrats of impeaching him without evidence of any high crimes or misdemeanors. In fact, he said Pelosi is trying to impeach him for actions he did not do but former Vice President Joe Biden actually did. In doing so, the Democrats are violating their oaths of office and proving themselves disloyal to the Constitution.
"The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence," the president wrote. "They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever. You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!"
"By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy," Trump declared. "You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme—yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America's founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our Founders pledged their very lives to build."
The president took aim at the Democrats' articles of impeachment: abuse of power in the July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and obstruction of Congress.
As for the first claim, Trump dismissed it as "a completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination."
In the call, the president asked Zelensky to investigate a theory that Ukrainian officials helped the Democrats in the 2016 U.S. election and to investigate potential corruption involving Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden who got a lucrative job at a Ukrainian gas firm while Joe Biden was the Obama administration's point person on Ukraine. Later, Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor looking into that notoriously corrupt gas company.
Trump referenced the transcript of the July 25 call, noting that he asked Zelensky to do " us a favor, not me , and our country , not a campaign" (emphasis original). "Every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put America's interests first, just as I did with President Zelensky."
The president then went on to accuse Democrats of weaponizing a policy dispute. "You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches of government into an impeachable offense—it is no more legitimate than the Executive Branch charging members of Congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power," he wrote.
Then Trump launched into Biden.
You know full well that Vice President Biden used his office and $1 billion dollars of U.S. aid 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 leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a bitch. He got fired." Even Joe Biden admitted just days ago in an interview with NPR that it "looked bad."
Then the president went for the jugular: "Now you are trying to impeach me by falsely accusing me of doing what Joe Biden has admitted he actually did."
Trump went on to note that both Zelensky and Ukraine's foreign minister have repeatedly insisted that there was "no pressure" and no link between congressionally-appropriated military funding to Ukraine and the investigations Trump asked for.
The president also condemned the "Obstruction of Congress" charge as "preposterous and dangerous."
House Democrats are trying to impeach the duly elected President of the United States for asserting Constitutionally based privileges that have been asserted on a bipartisan basis by administrations of both political parties throughout our Nation's history. Under that standard, every American president would have been impeached many times over. As liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warned when addressing Congressional Democrats: "I can't emphasize this enough...if you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It's your abuse of power. You're doing precisely what you're criticizing the President for doing."
Trump went on to accuse Pelosi and her caucus of having "developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call Trump Derangement Syndrome and sadly, you will never get over it!" He noted that Democrats "are unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great Election of 2016. So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes. You view democracy as your enemy!"
The president then launched into a litany of Democrat attacks against him, starting with early calls for his impeachment shortly after his inauguration.
"You and your party are desperate to distract from America's extraordinary economy, incredible jobs boom, record stock market, soaring confidence, and flourishing citizens," he added, referencing the lowest-ever unemployment rates for black, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, the tax cuts, more than 170 federal judges and two Supreme Court justices, the elimination of the individual mandate, the Space Force, "a defeated ISIS caliphate and the killing of the world's number one terrorist leader, al-Baghdadi," the USMCA, the latest trade deal with China, withdrawal from the Iran deal and the Paris Agreement, the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and much more.
Trump also launched into the Mueller probe and the Trump-Russia investigations before it. "After three years of unfair and unwarranted investigations, 45 million dollars spent, 18 angry Democrat prosecutors, the entire force of the FBI, headed by leadership now proven to be totally incompetent and corrupt, you have found NOTHING! ... You forced our nation through turmoil and torment over a wholly fabricated story, illegally purchased from a foreign spy by Hillary Clinton and the DNC in order to assault our democracy. Yet, when the monstrous lie was debunked and this Democrat conspiracy dissolved into dust, you did not apologize."
He insisted that if Democrats "truly cared about freedom and liberty for our nation," they would investigate "the FBI's horrifying abuses of power before, during, and after the 2016 election," rather than targeting Trump.
"You are the ones interfering in America's elections. You are the ones subverting America's Democracy. You are the ones Obstructing Justice. You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish personal, political, and partisan gain," the president thundered.
Trump also referenced Federalist 65, in which Alexander Hamilton warned that impeachment should not be weaponized for political gain.
"Any member of Congress who votes in support of impeachment—against every shred of truth, fact, evidence, and legal principle—is showing how deeply they revile the voters and how truly they detest America's Constitutional order. Our Founders feared the tribalization of partisan politics, and you are bringing their worst fears to life," he wrote.
Trump further excoriated Democrats for subverting his due process rights, claiming, "More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials."
'This is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth," he added. He warned that impeachment has united the Republican Party behind him, and that "history will judge you harshly because you proceeded with this impeachment charade."
He concluded with a warning about 2020. "I have no doubt the Americana 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."
The letter, available in full here , reads like an apotheosis of the president's Twitter account. Yet he backed up legal arguments with references echoing Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis . Ellis confirmed to PJ Media that she read over the letter, but said it was "100 percent him."
The president's hyperbolic rhetoric went too far, but he notably refrained from calling the July 25 call with Zelensky "perfect," as he has done many times before. While Trump did use some misleading hyperbole, his attacks against the articles of impeachment are well-grounded.
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Everyone is asking, "What is wrong with Trump?"
Please define everyone.
Everyone that is a progressive leftist liberal is asking, "What is wrong with Trump?"
There, I fixed it for ya.
They want to impeach the president based on perceived subtext in a phone call. It's crazy.
Yep that's it. Everything is perceived. No way he would ever do anything out of the ordinary or illegal.
He is the most trustworthy and truthful person there is...
Your words have no connection to what I wrote or the topic. You seem to be crafting a straw man argument.
I commented on one event, how it pertains to the president's duty and whether or not that event warrants impeachment. You ignored that. Instead you are ascribing to me an assessment of the man as a whole - something I did not comment on, and it is also not relevant to the articles of impeachment.
I was exactly right. No matter what trump does there is an excuse.
Saying there was no quid pro quo, even when Mulvaney came out and said there was, with the infamous so what.
Perceived subtext? Do me a favor and we want to see something like this done is in no way perceived.
If trump is so innocent why was only part of the transcript released. Why were things made classified, why is he not turning over any documents or letting anyone testify.
If one wants to talk about perceived...I perceive only a guilty person would be hiding all of their deeds.
Sometimes he hasn't actually done anything. Pointing that out is not making an excuse. It's just facing reality.
I didn't say anything about quid pro quo, although I understand that has become Democrats' favorite new latin phrase.
No, actually a reporter called it a quid pro quo. Mulvaney described it as "political influence in foreign policy." You think that if enough people call it quid pro quo and repeat their new latin lesson over and over, that it will turn something ordinary into something worth impeaching the president. All that is is groupthink.
He's not hiding "all" of his deeds. Some things should be hidden. It's not up to Trump to prove he's innocent. It's up to his accusers to prove he's guilty of something that warrants removal from office. They haven't done that. And chanting "quid pro quo" until we all throw up is a terribly unpersuasive argument.
You seem to be "thoughtful". Are you going to seriously consider voting to put Donald Trump in office for four more years?
You do know there is no way to explain that to future generations, dont you?
That is what you are going with? Political influence in foreign policy.
Haha That is one way to phrase it. Doesn't change what the deed is though.
Funny that conservative people use to be for an open government, now what trump does should be secret...
There has been witness after witness and trump has obstructed every step of the way.
And you just want to call it group think...
Every election is a choice between options. I'm not a fan of Trump, but I may decide he is better than the available alternative. You should think about that during the primaries. There are a few Democrats I would seriously consider against Trump. I'm not promising a vote yet (because I haven't made up my mind yet), but I would consider them.
Everyone's got their labels, don't they? So, let's see my options. I can go with the one being pushed by the partisan reporter, or I can go with the professional who was actually involved in the process. You can say his opinion is self-serving (and I think that's inevitably true), but it doesn't make him wrong.
I have actually considered the position that what Trump did demands impeachment. I really have. I find the case for impeachment wanting.
But it seems to me that virtually zero people on the Left have been willing to consider the idea that what he did does not demand impeachment. I find that consistent with the eagerness to entertain the idea of impeachment since before he was even sworn in. In other words, the people holding that opinion damaged their credibility long ago.
I'm way less conservative than you think. I think most people recognize that transparency is important in some situations and secrecy is critical in other contexts.
Trump hasn't obstructed anything. I would say he has been less than cooperative, but then it's not his job to cooperate with people trying to fire him. The president and Congress are co-equal branches of government. They are designed both to cooperate and to block each other. Where they disagree, Trump has been willing to let the third branch of government (the judiciary) adjudicate the matter. The House doesn't want to wait for that. That's their problem, not his.
There was more than one person involved in the process.
There are people that didn't want him in the office and want him out. Of course, just like there were people that didn't want Obama in the office and wanted him out, even some trying to obstruct everything he tried to do.
Saying one side lost credibility when both sides have done the same is not being completely honest.
Why should there be secrecy? It is not like some secret weapons program. Why should we not be allowed to know what is said and done with foreign leaders.
Do you really want me to believe that if Obama had done any of this, had a so called unpaid lawyer running around with a shadow foreign policy, trying to dig up dirt on an opponent, with the transcript (what we do have) and multiple witness' that the right wing would have not wanted him out on his ass.
I make no bones about it. I thought he was a disgusting human being decades before he got the office. He has had thousands of lawsuits against him including not paying people for work, with all his anti-immigration rhetoric has hired illegals at his properties, has defrauded people with his 'charity', cannot tell the truth if he had a gun to his head, does business with institutions that have laundered money, has six of his campaign people in jail....
Yeah, nothing to see here....
Hasn't obstructed anything? I think Mueller would differ with that opinion.
That's true of every president. It's also true of every president that there will be some fringe element talking about impeaching him. That's why when you do get around to filing articles of impeachment, it needs to be over the kinds of things that most people can easily agree on. It needs to be overwhelmingly bipartisan.
Impeaching Trump has always been partisan and the suggestions of grounds for impeachment - though they might sound good - are desperate reaches when the facts are considered.
The only thing close to this from the other side (in the last 100 years) was the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Clinton was excessively investigated, and I never thought that was to the benefit of the country, but he did ultimately lie under oath. I still think the whole business was petty and so did enough Senators that they acquitted him.
Because a lot of times they are touching on things that are very sensitive. We need our allies to be able to be candid with our president and diplomats. They won't be candid if they think their conversations will be made public. I fear that the release of the text of the conversation with Zelensky will damage our foreign affairs in the near term or longer.
And yet not even the House, in all its partisan zeal, has accused him of obstructing justice.
There will never be bipartisan again, I am afraid. Started decades ago, doubled under Obama and now tripled under trump. To his credit, most of the partisanship under Obama was not from his doing. trump is just divisive on purpose for a purpose.
The only thing they got Clinton on was lying. Being impeached for a blowjob was never going to happen. Why do you think trump would never go under oath? Do you think with this sham of a Senate trial he will have to speak on anything? He won't because he cannot tell the truth and would get caught. So the republicans will never let it happen. trump does not even have to take the stand. Clinton had to be deposed and go under oath and testify. Will never happen with trump. He will never have to do it.
I understand a need to talk candidly. I also understand a whistle blower coming forward with impropriety. For some reason the republicans think it should be all swept under the rug and just passed off as business as usual.
I don't know about you but I don't approve of that type of business.
I thought one of the articles of impeachment against him was obstruction. Mueller definitely pointed out several instances.
just curious... what would be worse.
That you actually believe that tells me all I need to know.
actually, there seems to be much you need to know.
but, that all will become obvious in due time.
cheers
Sorry but I don't fall for conspiracy theories.
if you believe nadler schiff and pelosi on impeachment?
you already fell for conspiracy theories.
That is the single most disgraceful letter ever written by an American president. Not that he wrote it himself, but he did sign it.
History is going to be so harsh to this buffoon, I hope we all live long enough to see the real judgement history will put on this preposterous era.
Went through them all, did you?
I did !
That letter will probably be a significant factor in getting him reelected, causing further implosion on the left.
hindsight is trump 2020
cheers
Trump is the king of "selfish gain".