Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
09.28.2019
Abuse of Power
Donald
Trump has no idea what it means to be a public servant. He is the antithesis of
a patriot, and corrupt to the bone.
It
has been an amazing thing to see, watching his stogies in the Republican Party;
to watch people Senator Lindsey Graham make excuses for his crimes, pretending that
his abuses of power do not matter.
Those
people are not patriots either, they are craven, they are cowards and they
clearly hate America.
Donald
Trump spoke this week at the United Nations. He rambled on and on about
nationalism, about the inherent right of a nation to protect itself, the duty a
nation has to advance its own interests, of course we know that when he says
these things he is thinking that he himself has the inherent right to use the
power of his office to do that for himself.
Have
you ever noticed how this Fake President refers to his time in office as his “rule”
or his “reign?” Last week he was talking about his “ascension” to the house,
and he referred to it as “the takeover of America.” He thinks that when a civil
servant performs the duties of their office, and report him up through the
chain of command for self-dealing, extortion, and other high crimes, he thinks
this is somehow treason, and should merit the death penalty. T-Rump said as
much at a gathering of State Department staffers, gathered at the United
Nations.
He
was warning them not to blow the whistle on him.
T-Rump
wants to be able to spill our national secrets to our adversaries, to invite or
coerce foreign powers to interfere in our elections, to advantage him in doing
so, and most importantly to profit from those crimes.
He
has appointed people like Mike Pompeo to the position of Secretary of State,
and William Barr to Attorney General, men who pretend that they are covering
his abuses out of respect for the office, because they believe in its powers,
not T-Rumps, but they are far off the mark. The office is not served by the
criminal that occupies it.
You
cannot refuse to protect and defend the Constitution of the United Sates by
failing to respect the separation of powers it articulates, the checks and balances
it enumerates, by perjuring yourself before congressional committees, claiming privileges
that do not exist, not responding to congressional subpoenas, hiding or
destroying documents. Every office is diminished when you do that.
If
we abandon the rule of law we become the playthings of tyrants.
The
congressional Republicans have an opportunity in front of them. They are being
invited to exercise their conscience on behalf of the country, to sit in
judgement of this orange-fool who would sell us out to the Russians, to the
Saudi’s or any other petty principality that would put a dollar in his pocket.
They
are being invited to let go of their hypocrisy and stand for the principles
they pretend to possess.
Let’s
hope they do it, and bring the Fake President to an ignominious end.
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