So mad he wrote a letter

[In o]ver six pages packed with scathing criticism, the president charges the architects of the impeachment process with violating their oaths of office, breaking their allegiance to the constitution and cheapening what he calls “the very ugly word, impeachment!”

  The Guardian

And only a few weeks ago, people - including Nancy Pelosi - were saying Trump wanted them to impeach him as an excuse not to do it. They would have been violating their oaths of office and breaking their allegiance to the constitution if they didn't.

The president’s claim that the impeachment process declares “open war” on democracy is a thinly veiled attempt to redirect back at his opponents accusations that he abused his power and obstructed Congress.

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Trump’s letter rehashes several of his favorite talking points, regurgitated profusely on his Twitter feed.

He claims his phone conversations with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were “perfect” and repeats a debunked conspiracy theory that Biden had forced the ousting of a Ukrainian prosecutor in order to stymie an investigation into corruption at an energy company that employed his son Hunter.

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Around the country, thousands of protestors attended rallies in support of impeachment. The demonstrations were organized by MoveOn.org and a coalition of progressive groups. Bundled up in winter parkas, protestors marched across New York’s Times Square chanting “No one’s above the law”.

Here are five highlights, or otherwise, from Trump’s dispatch.

1) ‘More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.’ Fourteen women and five men were hung in colonial Massachusetts the late 1690s, for supposedly engaging in witchcraft. “Spectral evidence” was admissible in the trials – evidence where a witness had a dream, or apparition, which featured the alleged witch engaged in dark deeds. Spectral evidence is yet to feature in Trump’s impeachment hearings.

2) ‘You [Nancy Pelosi] 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!’

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3) ‘There are not many people who could have taken the punishment inflicted during this period of time, and yet done so much for the success of America and its citizens.’ Trump’s claims that he alone could withstand such rough treatment from his opponents rather fall down here – located as they are in a six-page ode to self-pity.

4) ‘You view democracy as your enemy!’ This exclamation comes midway through the letter, after Trump claims the Democrats have developed “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. Trump is not confident of the odds Democrats will recover from the malady: “You will never get over it!” he writes.

5) ‘I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record. 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.’ There’s a slightly self-satisfied air to the final paragraph of the letter, as if Trump feels he has delivered a piece of soaring oratory which will be pored over by scholars in years to come. At least here, in a sense, Trump is correct. People are unlikely to forget “this affair” – his presidency – for a long, long time and historians of the future will certainly examine this letter: just perhaps not in the way Trump would want them to.

  Guardian

Trump Pelosi letter: The 30 most blistering lines

I'm guessing he didn't sleep last night and will be rage-tweeting all day today.

Stephen Miller has gotten him in trouble before with a letter in the Comey affair which had to be edited.  This time, I guess, Trump decided WTF, I'm going with it.

Read the full letter here or here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.