Florida echo for impeachment of Donald Trump

https://www.bradenton.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article233106265.html

Echo opinion letter published in the Florida Brandenton Herald newspaper:

After the Mueller hearings, it is time for Congress to impeach Donald Trump | Letter to the editor

The Congressional hearings examining what Special Counsel Robert Mueller found revealed that:

• Donald Trump engaged in obstruction of justice many times, lying about it and trying to coerce others to also lie about it.
• Trump engaged in witness tampering many times, also lying about that.
• Trump lied to the FBI in his written answers to their questions.

In the news reports after the hearings, it appears that many people expected Mueller to do the job of Congress in judging the President regarding his crimes. They called on him to charge the president with a crime, even though he was specifically prevented from doing so, and had made this clear from the start. They expected him to take a partisan position against the president, even though Mueller is a Republican, like Trump, and his role was to investigate, not judge.

Congress and the American people cannot expect Mueller to do Congress’s job for them, to charge Trump with crimes, and serious, impeachable crimes at that. We learned that Trump can be charged with these crimes when he has ended his time in office, but that is not good enough.

Donald Trump must answer for these crimes now. No one is above the law. Congress must act to impeach Trump immediately.

From William Anderson, Brandenton Florida

Florida echo - Donald Trump is far worse than we feared

https://www.bradenton.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article230903129.html

Waste of money campaign! An echo opinion letter published in the Florida Brandenton Herald.

Donald Trump is a dangerous and failed person

Donald Trump is campaigning hard with big money and endless lies to win Florida in 2020. We can’t let that happen. 

We need to make sure he fails.

In 2016, many of us voted for him, hoping the signs of racism, dishonesty, abuse and fraud were not true. 

But he is far worse than we feared.

His hatred and abuse of non-whites is criminal, caging those seeking help, calling them ugly names. He turns his back on our Puerto Rican citizens, treating them like dirt and refusing the help we give others suffering disasters. He calls hate-chanting Nazis “very good people”. He supports suppressing the votes of poor blacks. He denies equal rights for women and wants to force them to give birth against their will.

His pathological lying is an established fact, with thousands of lies documented over and over, while he boldly denies to our faces what we see and hear. His desire for dictatorship is confirmed as he ignores the Constitution and issues unlawful orders. He is replacing our system of justice with his own henchmen to make America a police state. He engages in cover-ups of his wrong-doing as well as his partners’, even Russians, convicted felons and murderers.
Trump is a psychopath who got other Floridians to sell us down the river. Those who stand for the values the Founders cherished have been scammed and betrayed. Now, he attempts to win Florida again with big money, bribes and another campaign of lies.

Let’s make sure Floridians don’t get conned again with his lies and his army of Trump stooges. We need to make sure Floridians wake up, realize how much is at stake, and defeat this psychopathic dictator.

William Anderson  Bradenton, Florida

Florida impeach opinion echo

          It is our ‘patriotic duty’ to impeach Donald Trump 

"...impeachment of Donald Trump is our moral and patriotic duty."

Bradenton Herald a Florida newspaper echo letter to the editor

The debate about whether or not to impeach Donald Trump has centered on removing him from office, whether the Senate would go along with it, and what the political fallout would be. However, there is more at stake than that. Our collective soul is at stake.

The word “impeach”, at dictionary.com, means: to accuse an official of misconduct in office, to bring an accusation against. There are a few other definitions, but nothing about removal from office. I realize there’s a difference between the ordinary meaning of the word and the act in Constitutional law, but the more important issue is: What is our responsibility as Americans?

The impeachment of Donald Trump is our moral and patriotic duty. Witnesses will testify to the facts regarding Donald Trump’s crimes. Tax fraud, business fraud, financial fraud, obstruction of justice, sexual assaults and more. Investigations have been conducted by highly respected professionals and the evidence has been compiled. The man is a criminal. He is a pathological liar and fraud, and has even been complicit in the cover-up of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s (1958-2018) murder. 

We know Trump knew of the evidence of the murder and he helped one of the murderers to evade justice.

Our country faces the most serious threat to our democracy that it has ever faced. We have a psychopathic criminal and demagogue occupying the office of the President of the United States. 

What are we going to do about that? Excuse him? Let him continue issuing orders as our chief executive and commander of our armed forces? We are now watching him establish concentration camps and engaging in brinksmanship with nuclear weapons.

From William Anderson, Bradenton Florida