Impeachment: If Soldiers Face Death, Senators Can Face Witnesses To Preserve America

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In the Constitution Congress has the sole power to declare war. In recent years, Presidents have entered the United States in multiple wars without Congressional declarations of war. When the United States enters a war the expectation is for those in military service to fight in those conflicts and if required, to give their lives in combat. Military members, members of Congress and the President take an oath that all contain these words, "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."  

Trump: Nixon on Steroids

 

Congress and Presidents have sent Americans to face deaths in wars foreign and domestic to maintain our republic! The least they can do is face the truth, witnesses and voters to make sure we protect our republic from foreign powers being invited to interfere in our elections going forward! Impeachment is not a political party exercise, but an emergency button to be pushed if a President, of any political party, is violating his oath of office and placing our republic in peril. We expect military men and women to sacrifice their lives in order to protect our freedoms, among those, to have free and fair elections free from foreign influence. The United States was born because it broke away from foreign rule through a bloody war and it should be obvious why an invitation by a sitting U.S. President, elected under a cloud of election interference by Russia, to the President of another country to assist him in an upcoming election by smearing his political opponent.

 

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to hear key fact witnesses before acquitting President Donald Trump of the articles of impeachment drawn against him, then the Senate has lost its moral authority to send brave Americans to their deaths in defense of their right to display such moral cowardice in a free country.   

Trump's War Against The America Dream

Fear and loathing of a fully realized version of the United States where the words of both Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. come into full fruition drove frightened voters to seek refuge in a retrograde vision of America from a morally bankrupt racist and elevate him to be President of the United States.

 

Thomas Jefferson wrote as part of the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Martin Luther King Jr. said he dreamed of a day when people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. The 45th President of the United States, Donald John Trump, is fighting against the realization of Jefferson's and King's words and used the fear of the day that is coming where more minorities will be counted as Americans than Whites. Using words and tactics that stoked fear of a darker America among the insecure, Trump drew out the darkness to gain enough votes in areas left behind by a changing economy to secure a victory in the electoral college while being rejected by three million more voters nationally than voted for him.

 Trump - Nixon on Steroids

Since taking the oath of office Trump has constantly sought to divide and pit Americans against each other on the basis of race, religion, ideology, sexual orientation and political party. Trump has called some immigrants vermin and infestations. Trump has described some countries certain immigrants came from as shitholes. Trump characterized predominantly Black athletes who knelt to protest police brutality against Blacks as sons of bitches while saying White Supremacists involved in violence in Charlottesville, NC were fine people. Trump tweeted about four minority first year Democrat Congresswomen and said, "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken crime infested places from which they came."

Trump continually seeks new lows and a twitter attack against Black Congressman Elijah Cummings took him there. Trump tweeted, "Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place." Later Trump stated ""no human being would want to live there."

Over two and one half years since becoming President Trump has never presented he was even pretending to represent the entire country, but he is stoking more racial, cultural and economic division than ever while throwing toxic red meat to his base.

In truth Trump wants the American dream to the reserved for those he deems deserve it, and it's not his lower income White supporters that shout and chant at his rallies and survive on a steady diet of FOX News. Trump abhors Dr. King's vision of America and rejects Thomas Jefferson's view of equality, but he wants Jefferson's America when wealthy White men ruled unchallenged. Voting with a foreboding of an inevitably different America pushing them aside caused a corrupt man to be entrusted with unchecked power and shielded from criminal repercussions due to the office he held. Trump is now attempting to destroy the United States as it exists to serve the needs of his greed, ego and powerful enablers, both foreign and domestic.

If Trump and his enablers get what they want and the United States is left in tatters in their wake, in their view, it is a small price to pay.