Speaking on a panel with CNN’s Anderson Cooper Tuesday evening, CNN senior political analyst David Gergen compared President Donald Trump’s recent letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to a “letter from a two-bit dictator in a banana republic.”
Trump’s six-page missive, sent the day before the House will likely vote to impeach him, decried the process as unfair, accusing Pelosi of "false display of solemnity” and promising Democrats will feel the pressure from their decision at the polls next November.
Gergen, a former communications director and presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, said the letter sounds like a message from a "dictator."
"I think right now it's going to go down as a letter from a two-bit dictator in a banana republic. It has that kind of quality to it," Gergen said.
"I think right now it's going to go down as a letter from a two-bit dictator in a banana republic. It has that kind of quality to it," CNN senior political analyst David Gergen says of President Trump's six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi https://t.co/NBb6JkfiJ0 pic.twitter.com/ljF1XX6TQA
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Trump's letter didn't hold back, slamming Democrats' "spiteful actions" and accusing them of "unfettered contempt for America's founding."
“You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America’s founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our Founders pledged their very lives to build. Even worse than offending the Founding Fathers, you are offending Americans of faith by continually saying 'I pray for the President,' when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense," the president wrote.
"It is a terrible thing you are doing," Trump added, "but you will have to live with it, not I!"