Editorial: Trump's most expansive defense against impeachment is just as lame and dishonest as his tweets
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 17, 2019
3 minutes
"A partisan crusade." "An unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power." An "open war on American Democracy" that is both "preposterous and dangerous." This is how President Trump characterized the House of Representatives' impeachment proceedings in a letter delivered Tuesday to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"More due process," Trump wrote, "was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch trials."
The six-page letter, which reads like a collection of the president's tweets stitched together and interspersed with sound bites from
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