{"id":38473,"date":"2019-12-18T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38473"},"modified":"2019-12-18T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:59:32","slug":"five-absurd-parts-of-trump-letter-to-pelosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/five-absurd-parts-of-trump-letter-to-pelosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Absurd Parts of Trump Letter to Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Instead of reporting the impeachment hearing direct, as so many are, I decided to inject a note of levity, when I found a hilarious article by Alex Henderson.\u00a0 in it, he illustrates just how absurd Resident Donald Trump&#8217;s [R-RU] protest letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] was.\u00a0 He did so in five examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"1218TrumpWitch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1218TrumpWitch.jpg\" alt=\"1218TrumpWitch\" width=\"700\" height=\"545\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, December 18, the two articles of impeachment that the House Judiciary Committee approved against President Donald Trump \u2014 one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress \u2014 are expected to come up for a full vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. If the Democrat-controlled House votes to indict Trump on those articles (which is likely), they would go to the U.S. Senate for consideration. Trump, the day before the expected House vote, sent a long-winded, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/12\/this-is-unhinged-internet-gawks-at-jarring-6-page-letter-trump-sent-to-pelosi-declaring-his-impeachment-worse-than-the-salem-witch-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rambling letter to House Speaker Pelosi<\/a> and railed against House Democrats for pursuing impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the most absurd things Trump said to Pelosi in his December 17 letter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u20264. <strong>Trump claimed his treatment is worse than those accused during the Salem Witch Trials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Trump compared impeachment to the Salem witch trials, writing, \u201cmore due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As HuffPost\u2019s Jennifer Bendery wrote, 20 people were killed in the Salem witch trials, a fate that will surely escape the president&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/12\/from-accusing-pelosi-of-lying-about-her-faith-to-overstating-his-electoral-college-win-here-are-the-5-most-absurd-parts-of-trumps-6-page-letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I shared just the fourth of five examples.\u00a0 Please click through for the other five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Steven Colbert also poked fun at Trump over this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n5Xaq8ZHKXU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Complains Of &#8220;Spiteful Actions&#8221; And &#8220;Egregious Conduct&#8221; In Angry Letter To Nancy Pelosi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/n5Xaq8ZHKXU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Since 20 witches were killed, one way we could (in jest) make his statement true is burn Fuhrer Witchenfarten at the stake 21 times!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of reporting the impeachment hearing direct, as so many are, I decided to inject a note of levity, when I found a hilarious article by Alex Henderson.\u00a0 in it, he illustrates just how absurd Resident Donald Trump&#8217;s [R-RU] protest letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] was.\u00a0 He did so in five examples. This Wednesday, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/five-absurd-parts-of-trump-letter-to-pelosi\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712,3746,3709,3722,3706,3799,3714],"class_list":["post-38473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-humor","tag-impeachment","tag-satire","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}