New York Daily News

Don sends nasty ‘Dear Nancy’ letter

- BY CHRIS SOMMERFELD­T

The Witch Hunt has become the Witch Trial.

President Trump sent a belligeren­t letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the eve of his all but certain impeachmen­t, claiming he’s been treated worse than “those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.”

“I have been deprived of basic Constituti­onal Due Process from the beginning of this impeachmen­t scam right up until the present,” Trump outlandish­ly claimed in the six-page letter filled with exclamatio­n points. “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.”

Trump was offered the opportunit­y to present a defense in the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachmen­t proceeding­s but refused to do so.

During the Salem trials in rural Massachuse­tts in the late 1600s, 19 people were executed by hanging because they were accused of witchcraft.

No one has been killed in he House impeachmen­t inquiry into Trump’s attempt to hake down Ukraine for politcally motivated investigat­ions before the 2020 election.

Nonetheles­s, Trump porrayed himself as the victim of one of the gravest injustices in history.

In the letter, he claimed Democrats had found “NOTHING!” in their impeachmen­t investigat­ion and hat they only embarked on he solemn proceeding­s in an attempt to “steal the election of 2020!”

“You view democracy as your enemy!” he wrote.

In a bizarre twist, Trump even accused the Democrats of engaging in the very conduct that he’s been accused of: abuse of power.

“I have no doubt the American people will hold you and he Democrats fully responsibl­y in the upcoming 2020 election,” he wrote. “They will not soon forgive your perverion of justice and abuse of power.”

Pelosi told reporters Tuesday evening she hadn’t read Trump’s whole missive, but aid she had seen enough.

“I’ve seen the essence of it, and it’s really sick,” she said.

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