Donald Trump is a Russian plant: illegally elected by Russian hackers

An echo opinion letter published in TribLive.com a Pennsylvania online newspaper affiliated with the city of Pittsburgh. 

Russian's Vladimir Putin was celebrating on November 8, 2016 when Russian election hacking contributed to the illegal election of Donald J. Trump.

Trump is dragging America through unnecceary political anxiety.

Dec. 7, 1941, was a day of infamy when over 2,000 American servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese attack. 

Unfortunately, America experienced another day of infamy on Nov. 8, 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president, with less than a majority of total votes.

Meanwhile, Russian's Vladimir Putin was celebrating. From his inauguration on, Trump has enhanced Russia’s military power in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He successfully weakened NATO by withholding and reducing funds and even indicated that the United States may not adhere to Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which requires all NATO nations to come to the defense of any partner under attack.

Trump’s actions have resulted in Russia owning the sea between Ukraine and Russia. Russia has prevented Ukraine’s military from using the sea to get to its own ports. Since our illustrious president stopped military aid to the Ukrainian military for a number of months, he has materially aided the Russians in their quest to take over all of Ukraine.

Our reality-TV president has also successfully turned over Syria to Russia by pulling our troops out of the Kurdish areas and allowing the Turks to massacre Kurdish men, women and children. He provided Russia with a foothold in Lebanon when he stopped military aid to Lebanon’s military.

The situation in the Middle East is reminiscent of the situation in Ukraine, since the Mediterranean Sea is slowly becoming a Russian lake. To stop this president from continuing in his efforts to make Russia a first-rate military power, the Congress must impeach and convict him and remove him from office.

Richard P. Davis, Saltlick, Pennsylania

Donald Trump has failed his ability to govern

Echo opinion letter published in Trib.live 

The United States Congress has finally received a “smoking gun” as the result of the failed leadership demonstrated on a daily basis by Donald Trump.
Trump’s request to the Ukrainian president to find damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden. The Ukrainian president did not provide this information, and Trump held up a United States’ military appropriation of $400 million for the Ukrainian military for over three months. Besides being illegal, this request seriously damaged Ukraine’s military efforts because the Russians had hacked the Ukraine military communication system until the point where it was inoperative.

Over $300 million of the U.S. appropriation was to provide a new system which would override the Russian efforts. Russia, who has already taken over Crimea, is intent in conquering the rest of the Ukraine and making it a part of Russia.

Trump has allowed his quest to damage the prestige of his leading opponent for the 2020, presidency to seriously erode our relationships with our NATO ally, which we have sworn to defend. For the future of our democracy, Donald Trump must be impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted by the Senate and removed from office.
Richard P. Davis, Saltlick, Pennsylvania