"Today, President Trump’s White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone, directed an eight-page letter to Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, et al., declining on behalf of President Trump to participate in the Democrats’ sham impeachment proceeding.
The letter, embedded below, is excellent.
Some would say, brilliant.
It attacks the Democrats’ constitutionally defective and politically motivated proceeding at its root. You should read it all.
This is the letter’s introduction:
I write on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in response to your numerous, legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled–contrary to the Constitution of the United States and all past bipartisan precedent–as an “impeachment inquiry.” As you know, you have designed and implemented your inquiry in a ma[nn]er that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process.For example, you have denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in secret. You have violated civil liberties and the separation of powers by threatening Executive Branch officials, claiming that you will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representatives–under the control of either political party–taken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue.Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen...
Well said! There is lots more good stuff, some of a more technical nature. Here are just a few more paragraphs..."
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