Throughout the indictment process which targets Donald Trump and who must find a provisional epilogue, Wednesday December 18 in Washington, with a solemn vote in the House of Representatives, the White House tried to present the president as absorbed by his work, far from the tumult.
A scene contradicted by its hyperactivity on Twitter and which was even more shattered with the publication, on Tuesday, of an inflammatory letter for the attention of the speaker of the House, the elected democrat of California Nancy Pelosi .
It will be remembered that everything started with the reporting of a whistleblower, after an embarrassing telephone conversation between the President of the United States and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, on July 25. During this exchange, Donald Trump had asked his interlocutor to initiate investigations targeting his political opponents, blocking, as the investigation of the House of Representatives showed, an invitation to the White House and military aid crucial for a country at war against pro-Russian separatists.
Convinced of becoming the third president in US history to be indicted, Donald Trump said he wrote this six-page letter. "For history" and there is no doubt that it will appear in the balance sheet of his mandate.
The choice of excess
No doubt a letter from an American president has never conveyed such anger and exasperation. Undoubtedly, it has never twisted so many facts to support an alternative narrative to what is accused of it, gathering in a confusing cocktail diatribes, untruths and … an interminable paragraph devoted to a very embellished assessment.
Obviously frustrated by the indelible stain that this indictment will leave on his presidency, even if it will not result in his dismissal, the president, in a typically Trumpian movement, has chosen the excess. Posing as a martyr, victim of a "Crusade", he assured that"A fairer procedure (had) granted to defendants in the Salem witch affair ", in the XVIIe century, concluded with twenty killings.
He returned the accusation of abuse of power against the House Democrats, specifically targeting Nancy Pelosi. "By carrying out this illegitimate indictment, you are violating your swearing in, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution and you are declaring open war on American democracy. You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers (…) but your malicious actions display absolute contempt for what made America and your conduct threatens to destroy what our Founders built "said Donald Trump, taking back everything the Democrats blame him for.
