THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 17, 2019
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives Washington,
D.C. 20515
Dear Madam Speaker:
I write to express my strongest and most
powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the
Democrats in the House of Representatives. This impeachment represents an
unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers,
unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.
The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House
Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional
theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence. 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. 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. Even worse than offending the
Founding Fathers, you 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!
Your first claim, "Abuse of Power," is a
completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination.
You know that I had a totally innocent conversation with the President of
Ukraine. I then had a second conversation that has been misquoted,
mischaracterized, and fraudulently misrepresented. Fortunately, there was a
transcript of the conversation taken, and you know from the transcript (which
was immediately made available) that the paragraph in question was perfect. I
said to President Zelensky: "I would like you to do us a favor, though,
because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about
it." I said do us a favor, not me, and our
country, not a campaign. I then mentioned the Attorney General of the
United States. Every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put America's
interests first, just as I did with President Zelensky.
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.
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: "1 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." Now you are trying to impeach me by falsely accusing me
of doing what Joe Biden has admitted he actually did.
President Zelensky
has repeatedly declared that I did nothing wrong, and that there was No
Pressure. He further emphasized that it was a "good phone call," that
"I don't feel pressure," and explicitly stressed that "nobody
pushed me." The Ukrainian Foreign Minister stated very clearly: "I
have never seen a direct link between investigations and security
assistance." He also said there was "No Pressure." Senator Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin, a supporter of Ukraine who met privately with President
Zelensky, has said: "At no time during this meeting... was there any
mention by Zelensky or any Ukrainian that they were feeling pressure to do
anything in return for the military aid." Many meetings have been held
between representatives of Ukraine and our country. Never once did Ukraine
complain about pressure being applied—not once! Ambassador Sondland testified
that I told him: "No quid pro quo. I want nothing. I want nothing. I want
President Zelensky to do the right thing, do what he ran on."
The second claim, so-called "Obstruction of
Congress," is 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 out 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."
Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening.
Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College
landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this
defeat. You have developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call
Trump Derangement Syndrome and sadly, you will never get over it! You 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!
Speaker Pelosi, you admitted just last week at
a public forum that your party's impeachment effort has been going on for
"two and a half years," long before you ever heard about a phone call
with Ukraine. Nineteen minutes after I took the oath of office, the Washington
Post published a story headlined, "The Campaign to Impeach President Trump
Has Begun." Less than three months after my inauguration, Representative
Maxine Waters stated, "I'm going to fight every day until he's
impeached." House Democrats introduced the first impeachment resolution
against me within months of my inauguration, for what will be regarded as one
of our country's best decisions, the firing of James Comey (see Inspector
General Reports)—who the world now knows is one of the dirtiest cops our Natiou
has ever seen. A ranting and raving Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, declared just
hours after she was sworn into office, "We're gonna go in there and we're
gonna impeach the 
Representative Al Green said in May, "I'm
concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get
re-elected." Again, you and your allies said, and did, all of these things
long before you ever heard of President Zelensky or anything related to
Ukraine. As you know very well, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with
Ukraine, or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.
It only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the
election of 2020!
Representative Al Green said in May, "I'm
concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get
re-elected." Again, you and your allies said, and did, all of these things
long before you ever heard of President Zelensky or anything related to
Ukraine. As you know very well, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with
Ukraine, or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.
It only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the
election of 2020!
Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to
the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air,
my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy
language to Congress as though it were said by me. His shameless lies and
deceptions, dating all the way back to the Russia Hoax, is one of the main
reasons we are here today.
You and your party are desperate to distract from America's
extraordinary economy, incredible jobs boom, record stock market, soaring
confidence, and flourishing citizens. Your party simply cannot compete with our
record: 7 million new jobs; the lowest-ever unemployment for African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans; a rebuilt military; a completely
reformed VA with Choice and Accountability for our great veterans; more than
170 new federal judges and two Supreme Court Justices; historic tax and
regulation cuts; the elimination of the individual mandate; the first decline
in prescription drug prices in half a century; the first new branch of the United
States Military since 1947, the Space Force; strong protection of the Second
Amendment; criminal justice reform; a defeated ISIS caliphate and the killing
of the world's number one terrorist leader, al-Baghdadi; the replacement of the
disastrous NAFTA trade deal with the wonderful USMCA (Mexico and Canada); a
breakthrough Phase One trade deal with China; massive new trade deals with
Japan and South Korea; withdrawal from the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal;
cancellation of the unfair and costly Paris Climate Accord; becoming the
world's top energy producer; recognition of Israel's capital, opening the
American Embassy in Jerusalem, and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the
Golan Heights; a colossal reduction in illegal border crossings, the ending of
Catch-and-Release, and the building of the Southern Border Wall—and that is
just the beginning, there is so much more. You cannot defend your extreme
policies—open borders, mass migration, high crime, crippling taxes, socialized
healthcare, destruction of American energy, late-term taxpayer-funded abortion,
elimination of the Second Amendment, radical far-left theories of law and
justice, and constant partisan obstruction of both common sense and common
good.
There is nothing I would rather do than stop referring to
your party as the Do-Nothing Democrats. Unfortunately, I don't know that you
will ever give me a chance to do so.
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! Few people in high position could have endured or passed
this test. You do not know. nor do vou care, the great damage and hurt you have
inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family. You conducted a fake
investigation upon the democratically elected Plesident of the United States,
and you are doing it yet again.
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. But instead of putting our country first,
you have decided to disgrace our country still further. You completely failed
with the Mueller report because there was nothing to find, so you decided to
take the next hoax that came along, the phone call with Ukraine—even though it
was a perfect call. And by the way, when I speak to foreign countries, there
are many people, with permission, listening to the call on both sides of the
conversation.
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.
Before the Impeachment Hoax, it was the Russian Witch Hunt.
Against all evidence, and regardless of the truth, you and your deputies
claimed that my campaign colluded with the Russians—a grave, malicious, and
slanderous lie, a falsehood like no other. 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. You did not recant. You did not ask to be
forgiven. You showed no remorse, no capacity for self-reflection. Instead, you
pursued your next libelous and vicious crusade—you engineered an attempt to
frame and defame an innocent person. All of this was motivated by personal
political calculation. Your Speakership and your party are held hostage by your
most deranged and radical representatives of the far left. Each one of your
members lives in fear of a socialist primary challenger—this is what is driving
impeachment. Look at Congressman Nadler's challenger. Look at yourself and
others. Do not take our country down with your party.
If you truly cared about freedom and liberty for our
Nation, then you would be devoting your vast investigative resources to
exposing the full truth concerning the FBI's horrifying abuses of power before,
during, and after the 2016 election—including the use of spies against my
campaign, the submission of false evidence to a FISA court, and the concealment
of exculpatory evidence in order to frame the innocent. The FBI has great and
honorable people, but the leadership was inept and corrupt. I would think that
you would personally be appalled by these revelations, because in your press
conference the day you announced impeachment, you tied the impeachment effort
directly to the completely discredited Russia Hoax, declaring twice that
"all roads lead to Putin," when you know that is an abject lie. I
have been far tougher on Russia than President Obama ever even thought to be.
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.
Worse still, I have been deprived of basic Constitutional
Due Process from the beginning of this impeachment scam right up until the
present. I have been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the
Constitution, including the right to present evidence, to have my own counsel
present, to confront accusers, and to call and cross-examine witnesses, like
the so-called whistleblower who started this entire hoax with a false report of
the phone call that bears no relationship to the actual phone call that was
made. Once I presented the transcribed call, which surprised and shocked the
fraudsters (they never thought that such evidence would be presented), the
so-called whistleblower, and the second whistleblower, disappeared because they
got caught, their report was a fraud, and they were no longer going to be made
available to us. In other words, once the phone call was made public, your
whole plot blew up, but that didn't stop you from continuing.
More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem
Witch Trials.
You and others on your committees have long said
impeachment must be bipartisan—it is not. You said it was very divisive—it
certainly is, even far more than you ever thought possible—and it will only get
worse!
This is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted
coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. You
are not just after me, as President, you are after the entire Republican Party.
But because of this colossal injustice, our party is more united than it has
ever been before. History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this
impeachment charade. Your legacy will be that of turning the House of
Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan
persecution.
Perhaps most insulting of all is your false display of
solemnity. You apparently have so little respect for the American People that
you expect them to believe that you are approaching this impeachment somberly,
reservedly, and reluctantly. No intelligent person believes what you are
saying. Since the moment I won the election, the Democrat Party has been
possessed by Impeachment Fever. There is no reticence. This is not a somber
affair. You are making a mockery of impeachment and you are scarcely concealing
your hatred of me, of the Republican Party, and tens of millions of patriotic
Americans. The voters are wise, and they are seeing straight through this
empty, hollow, and dangerous game you are playing.
I have no doubt the American people will hold you and the
Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election. They will not soon
forgive your perversion ofjustice and abuse of power.
There is far too much that needs to be done to improve the
lives of our citizens. It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in
Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for
the American People. While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write
this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a
permanent and indelible record.
One hundred 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.
cc: United States Senate
United States House of Representatives
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