WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday angrily denounced the looming House vote to impeach him as a “partisan impeachment crusade” being waged by Democrats, describing the effort to remove him from office as an “attempted coup” that would come back to haunt them at the ballot box next year. “This is nothing more than an illegal, partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth,” Mr. Trump declared, describing a process enshrined in the Constitution as an attempted government overthrow. “History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade,” he wrote. In a missive full of unproven charges, hyperbole and long-simmering grievances against his own government — at one point, Mr. Trump referred to leaders of the F.B.I. as “totally incompetent and corrupt” — the president angrily disputed both of the impeachment charges against him.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 16:01 UTC