Trump has little to fear from impeachment proceedings

The Democrats may be ruffling a few feathers – but they’re unlikely to oust the president

According to his odd, rambling, six-page letter to Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump believes that the impeachment proceedings against him are unfair: “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.”

Yet as the modern-day mayor of Salem points out, this is wide of the mark. Kim Driscoll advised the president to “learn some history” and took to the president’s favoured medium, Twitter, to put him straight: