Donald John Trump is already violating his oath to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution

 Letter to the editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, in Montana : Trump inauguration (has already) made a mockery of our Constitution.

Our nation's Constitution will be grossly violated, rendered inconsequential on Inauguration Day, Monday, Jan. 20, which, ironically, is also Martin Luther King, Jr., Day.

Rev. King, in the 1960s, led the fight for Black citizens' constitutional rights. President Trump, in 2021, called for a violent insurrection against the Constitution.

The mandate in the heart of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is abundantly clear:


No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States...to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

In 2021, President Trump called together thousands of supporters for a Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington. We all know what happened. Now, President-elect Trump has said, as again president, he will pardon those he sent to storm the Capitol and "fight like hell."


In 2021, President Trump called together thousands of supporters for a Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington. We all know what happened. Now, President-elect Trump has said, as again president, he will pardon those he sent to storm the Capitol and "fight like hell."


Trump is an insurrectionist. He may not not "hold any office, civil or military, under the United States" without being in violation of the Constitution, but the Constitution be damned.


At noon on January 20, Donald John Trump, once again, will place his left hand upon a Holy Bible, raise his right hand, and swear before God and the nation to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution of the United States of America, and render the Constitution inconsequential in a ceremony that will make historic mockery of that sacred document.


From Kenneth Allen in Bozeman Montana