The six-page letter President Trump sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday "is unlike anything I've ever seen from a sitting president — really, anything I've ever seen from Donald Trump," Chris Cuomo said on CNN Tuesday night. It wasn't a compliment. Trump is "marshaling the weight of the world's most powerful office to declare himself as the sole arbiter of what actions are impeachable," Cuomo said, and doing so "without any real deep thought, it's just a stream of consciousness bombarding you with mistruths, with lies, with personal animus, and a staggering lack of comprehension for the reality that he now finds himself in and, as a result, the rest of us do as well."
Cuomo walked through some of the "absurdity that is littered throughout this thing," swatting at Trump's fallacies and concluding that "the basic facts that he tries to present are not on his side." But Trump's accusation that Pelosi was lying about praying for him got some special attention from Cuomo:
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