Trump sends scorching letter to Pelosi ahead of House impeachment vote

President Donald Trump, on the verge of becoming the

third

US president to be impeached, sent an extraordinary letter to House Speaker Nancy

Pelosi

on Tuesday, excoriating House Democrats and casting himself as a victim of an attempted coup. A day before the full House is set to vote on articles of

impeachment accusing

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impeachment, accusing

him of abusing his power and obstructing lawmakers' investigations, Trump wrote in his indignant six-page missive that

Democrats

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the Democrats

would come to regret their efforts when voters cast ballots

next

fall. Employing falsehoods and exaggerations, he bemoaned the

process

as woefully broken, wildly claiming that "(m

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ore due

process

was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials." He accused

Pelosi

of portraying a "false display of solemnity" during the

impeachment

process

. "No intelligent person believes what you are saying," Trump wrote in the letter sent on Tuesday, adding: "History will judge you harshly as you proceed with

this

impeachment

charade." Responding late Tuesday,

Pelosi

said she'd been working and only saw the "essence" of Trump's letter. "It's really sick," she said. The document was a brash public display of

resentments

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the resentments

that Trump has been fostering since the start of the

impeachment

process

. His associates say he is deeply aggrieved at the situation and views the prospect of being impeached as a stain on his legacy. Trump and

Pelosi

have had a history of tense and often personal fights, which have been highlighted by the

impeachment

inquiry launched

this

fall. Their most recent White House meeting, in October, was cut short because of the insults they hurled toward each other in the Cabinet Room.