Right-wing media praise Trump’s deranged anti-impeachment letter to Pelosi

Written by Zachary Pleat

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President Donald Trump sent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) a lie-filled letter attacking his imminent impeachment that some serious journalists described as “batshit,” “crazy town,” and “unhinged.” But Trump’s allies in the right-wing media, detached from reality, praised the letter as a cogent and historic document worthy of academic study.

Fox host Sean Hannity: Trump is “fighting back” with “a powerful, scathing beat down” of a letter.

From the December 17, 2019, edition of Fox News' Hannity

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Breaking moments ago, the president, well, he’s fighting back. In what is a powerful, scathing beat down, the president accused Speaker Pelosi of “declaring open war on American democracy” with a “partisan impeachment crusade” that “represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democratic lawmakers.” With “more due process … afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.” President Trump went on to utterly destroy the Pelosi and the Democrats and the Schiff show and the nutty Nadler Schiff show and their idiotic articles of impeachment.

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs: Trump’s letter was “beautiful,” “terrific,” “elegant,” and “comprehensive.” Fox contributor Jason Chaffetz also praised the letter, saying Trump “really pointed out the flaws” with the impeachment process and he “was absolutely right. I’m glad that he did it.”

From the December 17, 2019, edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight

LOU DOBBS (HOST): I want to turn to -- speaking of corruption, the radical Dems and their efforts to overthrow this president. And it is -- the president today wrote a beautiful letter, a terrific letter to Nancy Pelosi, which she responded to by saying it was ridiculous, sick. In point of fact, it was elegant, it was comprehensive, and it put her and the radical Dimms, who have attacked this president mercilessly for over three years, precisely where they should be. And that is in the focus of history for decades to come. 

JASON CHAFFETZ (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Yeah. I hope everybody has a chance to read that letter. I thought the president really pointed out the flaws and the arguments. I think the president was absolutely right. I'm glad that he did it.

Fox host Laura Ingraham: Trump’s letter “is pretty darn ... on point.”

From the December 17, 2019, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I mean, the letter is hard-hitting, but the letter is pretty darn, you know, on point, on almost every point. They were trying to distract from the economy, they’re obsessed with getting him, they hate him, they hate the Americans who voted for him.

Talk radio host and MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt: Trump’s letter is “a historic document and will be cited by @POTUS scholars for generations as the defining example of Article II blasting Article I.”

Hewitt: Trump’s letter “will be included in every Con Law casebook in the years ahead.”

Hewitt says he will teach his constitutional law classes about the Trump letter because “it is the summit of Article II and Article I conflict.”

Hugh Hewitt reads and praises the Trump letter

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From the December 18, 2019, edition of Salem Radio Network’s The Hugh Hewitt Show

HUGH HEWITT (HOST): What I am doing right now is finishing the six-page letter that President Trump sent to Nancy Pelosi yesterday. It has taken the better part of an hour of radio, first and second segment, now the third segment, to finish it. I begin where I left off.

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HEWITT: That's it -- took two-and-a-half segments to read to you. Why did I do that? Because it deserves to be in the record. I will be teaching this in con law as long as I teach. It is the summit of Article II and Article I conflict. It is the perfect expression of disdain for the latter, for the former. And it comes at a moment of history. Don't read other people's takes on it. Read it for yourself. I had to hunt around for it, because when I went to The New York Times and Washington Post -- surprise -- they did not put the actual text headlined at the top. I had to hunt around, over to WhiteHouse.gov, and found it there. What do you think of it? I'd love to know.

Talk radio host Mark Simone on Fox Business: Trump’s letter is a “masterpiece” and like the Gettysburg Address.

From the December 17, 2019 edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight

LOU DOBBS (HOST): The President today in writing a six page letter to Pelosi, gave her an opportunity, an off-ramp, if you will, at the conclusion of that letter. And then she responds with a comment to a reporter with others present, saying it was a ridiculous letter. That is her response. And the ignorance is institutionalized amongst the party of hate now, obviously.

MARK SIMONE: Everybody should go read that letter, it is a masterpiece.

DOBBS: It is.

SIMONE: It's a Gettysburg Address of smear job, false accusations, what a response. It's a historical document. 

Talk radio and Fox News host Mark Levin: “The president of the United States today wrote a historic letter, a comprehensive letter for the record, for all of history and all of time to Nancy Pelosi, laying out in exquisite detail what a disgrace" impeachment is. 

Mark Levin praises Trump's impeachment letter as "a historic letter, a comprehensive letter for the record, for all of history and all of time"

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From the December 17, 2019, edition of Westwood One's The Mark Levin Show

MARK LEVIN (HOST): The president of the United States today wrote a historic letter, a comprehensive letter for the record, for all of history and all of time to Nancy Pelosi, laying out in exquisite detail what a disgrace this entire railroad job is. And I’m going to begin reading it to you, and we’ll have to go to the break at some point -- I’ll read it to you after the break as well. Because I don’t believe I can finish it beforehand. But it’s worth reading.

Fox Nation’s Diamond & Silk: “An Incredible & Direct letter with NO sugar coating. Straight & to the point. No beating around the bush. Everything written in this letter needed to be said.”

Breitbart.com: Trump wrote a “historic impeachment takedown letter.”

Breitbart.com praises Trump's impeachment letter as "historic"

Gateway Pundit: “The gloves are off ... in a letter with truth behind him.” Gateway Pundit’s Christina Laila praised Trump’s letter in a post, quoting multiple parts of his screed against Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Adam Schiff. [Gateway Pundit, 12/17/19]