I originally saw twitter response on Apple News link to a Huffpost article. Here it is from Twitter. We can never forget that Republican Party used its entire political power to allow then President Trump to lay the groundwork for Putin’s current war crime against European Ukraine. They promoted the dictator in their defense of the dictator wannabe Trump. Veterans that fought for Republican freedoms while they set the stage and ran interference to opposition for the huge tragedy in Europe today.
We must always remember Trump fought to promote Putin politically, upon coming to office immediately investigated how to and then reduced sanctions on Putin for seizing Crimea and provinces in Georgia. He refused to enforce sanctions that were voted as Veto-proof by a bi-partisan congress and attempted to get Putin back into the G7 by force over European objections. As the video exposes he held up vital military aid to Ukraine using political blackmail to secure personal power. Suddenly it seems the Republicans to be politically expedient have come out on the side of World Freedom after spending 4 years attacking NATO with Trump and using his America First and Only agenda to open the door for Putin.
Thank God, Zelensky previewed the world his moral integrity and did not bow to Trump’s authoritarian blackmail. Because of Zelensky’s bravery he saved the US and NATO from impotence in Putin’s aggression. President Biden was able to reform the NATO alliance and allies then supported Ukraine with arms and funds. Now Europe and most of the World has joined in condemning Russia for its unlawful and brutal attack on Ukraine. May Zelensky save Ukraine’s freedom, too.
President Trump, left, greets House Ways And Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, the lead author of Republicans’ tax reform plans, before a meeting to discuss the American Health Care Act on March 10 at the White House. Analysts say the GOP’s failure to pass its Obamacare alternative bodes poorly for Brady’s tax package.
A reason for not impeaching Trump
by Congressman Brady
Kevin Brady Member of Congress 8th District of Texas Deputy Whip
Ranking Member, Committee on Ways and Means
Joint Committee on Taxation
January 15, 2021
Thank you for sharing your thoughts regarding impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. I condemn the violent events that took place at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and individuals who participated in these events should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law. However, any effort to remove President Trump from office will only further divide our country in ways the proponents have failed to fully consider. I will not support impeachment of President Donald Trump.
On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands protested what they perceived to have been election fraud and the failure of so many states to conduct an election in accordance with their own laws. Of the over 100,000 protesters who came to Washington that day to show support for the President, most were peaceful. They gathered near the White House, listened to the President speak and returned to their homes. Unfortunately, a significant number made their way to the Capitol and once there, several hundred rioters, looters, and vandals breached the barriers, broke windows and violently forced their way past police officers injuring many in the process. The violent events that took place were unacceptable and shameful and led to the death of five individuals. One of those who died was U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who valiantly and courageously gave his life to protect the men and women in the United States Capitol. In response to this tragedy, Speaker Pelosi has urged Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment on the grounds that President Trump is unfit to serve as the President of the United States. Further, Speaker Pelosi introduced one article of impeachment, asking for the removal of President Trump for inciting an insurrection.
Those calling for impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment in response to President Trump’s statements this week are themselves engaging in intemperate and inflammatory language and calling for action that is not only irresponsible but could well incite further violence. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to bring America together and be the President of all Americans. With less than eight days until his inauguration, President Trump cannot be removed from office in the next week. President-elect Biden should lead, and he should reject calls to go down this ill-considered path which will only serve to further divide the country.
We have great and important tasks to accomplish soon. We must focus on defeating Covid, rebuilding our economy, and uniting Americans around our shared ideals and principles. I am committed to working together with President-elect Biden to do just that. Thank you for letting me know your opinion. Let’s keep in touch, and if I can be of help in the future, don’t hesitate to let me know.
Sincerely, Kevin Brady U.S. Representative Eighth District of Texas
Official Kevin Brady photograph
The Response to Congressman Brady January 17, 2021
For a man who wins his district by 90%, I am astounded in your statements of who has divisive rhetoric. For four years, because certain Americans have wished for equal justice or medical care equity, the man you are defending , as well as many who supported him in the Legislature, have divided the nation by vilifying fellow Americans calling them radical leftists and communists. This to condition, hold close and incite Trump’s base of voters. Those very voters he threatens to and has unleashed against any GOP politician that would dare to temper him as he desires more power.
Those who have been arrested for storming and attacking the Capital in support of Trump we find are not just fringe loners or isolated white power radicals. They are Real Estate Agents, State Legislatures, ex-military officers, active duty police officers, corporate lawyers and Olympic gold medal winners. Calling these Republican voters as just ‘rioters, looters, and vandals’ and dismissing the underlying reasons that they found themselves breaking the law is at best ingenuous.
My original discussion was not that Trump needed to be removed for political reasons. It was because I realized and even wrote about it in my blog back in 2015, the warning signs of this ‘Man who would be King.’ He used the political process for personal gain and has himself become hypnotized with his power. He turned decent Republicans, some maybe even in your district in support of his cause for this power, into criminals with his destructive rhetoric.
Trump has become the ‘ mystical medicine man’ to Republicans as Carl Jung’s depiction of Hitler was for the Germans. You likely do not agree but ask yourself how such upstanding individuals found themselves marching to the Capital and rushing police officers? Why did they find themselves justified in walking past the broken glass and destroyed doors into the Capitol while others were yelling for the hanging of Vice President Pence. Why did they not do as you termed, just listened ‘to the President speak and returned to their homes?’ They were asked to march of the Capitol by Trump and said in his mystical way, He would protect them ; ‘I will be there with you’
It was because of this ability to propagandize destructive rhetoric and the effects on the Republican party with its 72 million voters that I asked for his removal from the ability to hold office. The continuation of turning the Republican party into this violent arm of his must not be allowed to progress over the next four years. Trump must not be allowed to gather campaign money for his persona profit in a feign for a 2024 election run.
Republican party policies over the years have benefitted myself, no doubt. I would live peacefully as my office colleagues would extol the benefits of Republican policies and senior management would support benefits for Republican candidates including yourself. It was part of the process of growing American values and our democratic nation. Of course, I do not agree with some of the Republican social policies from a standpoint of how God interacts with individuals and that the Government cannot and should not attempt to make that choice for the individual in some vain attempt to provide for their salvation. I do believe in the right of the individual to pursue their own life and their own happiness in the liberty of our Democratic Republic. I do believe this is best done by the representative government of the people of this nation as a whole.
In closing, let me rephrase my original correspondence. I do fear for the destruction of the Republican party, even if you do not, and with it the danger to our Democratic Republic by this man’s quest for power. The most vivid example might be found in the difference between the 2016 Republican platform and that of 2020.
We affirm — as did the Declaration of Independence: that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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…had the Platform Committee been able to convene in 2020, would have undoubtedly unanimously agreed to reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration
The Republican Party cannot become the party of one man.
Carl Jung ; The other one un-named other ‘Medicine Man.’ leader
US Capital under assault by Trumpian forces January 6, 2021
“I would know by what power I am called hither “
Charles I at his trial January 1649
You attacked the sovereignty of the people by suspending the assemblies of its representatives and by driving them by violence from the place of their sessions. . .
Indictment of Louis XVI December 1792
The trial of Louis XVI, King of France 1792
Donald J. Trump thinks of himself or rather imagines himself as King of the United States. He has talked of his powers to his followers as he has honed them into a personal army that was loyal to him alone. It was on January 6th 2021 when the co-equal branch of government, the US Legislative branch was in session to count and certify the electoral votes certified and submitted by each of 50 states that Trump called upon that army to march upon the legislative branch in an effort to disrupt, stop and overturn his lost election to Joe Biden. The subsequent violence invaded the capital building breaking doors and windows to gain illegal access and sending the legislature including the Vice President running under the cover of guns and gas masks. The Trumpian Army retired from the Capital to return to their homes having succeeded for a few hours in the end in keeping their King without a certified electoral loss however, five people lost their lives from the violence.
Trump and his cohorts plotted well their physical attack by the Executive Branch followers against the Legislature Branch. Trump for weeks sent out messages on Twitter for the army to assemble. He stoked lie after lie about a stolen election even though he failed in court case after court case to present any evidence. It was his word alone that carried his Trumpian army into battle with Congress. Trump had a booth set up in front of the White House as a gathering place where he could speak to them and send them marching on the Capital not unlike Hitler’s march from the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in the Munich Putsch.
The Munich Putsch 1923
Trump and his supporters, Rudy Giuliani, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Trump’s own son Donald Trump Jr. gave speeches of defiance and fighting the legislature. They used words like ‘trial by Combat’, ‘we will not quit fighting’ and ‘fight to the end’ to bless their followers into a patriotic fervor and saying only way to save their freedom and their country was to stop the Legislature in its efforts to certify the electors. They demonized the duly elected President-elect and Vice President-elect for months prior and used their powers to voice cries of being mistreated and lied to their followers about evidence they had obtained. They spent speeches in Georgia employing their last desperate hope would be for Vice President Pence to use powers he did not have to declare the States’ election documents false and anoint Trump as the true president.
Then Trump himself directed to crowd to march upon the Capital. He assured their safety as he lied to the crowd saying he would be marching with them. Then unlike Mussolini and his march on Rome, Trump got in his armored limousine and headed the opposite direction back to the safety of the White House under armed security. He would watch events of his attack on the legislature unfold on television in safety as if he had nothing to do with it.
generic limo photo
The result was a crowd whipped into frenzy believing they were under the protection of the President of the United States along their side. They were ready for a fight thinking they were patriots. Even called as such by the President’s Daughter Ivanka on her Twitter note as they began to storm the Capital looking to stop the Legislature from doing its duty under the law. Chants of ‘find (Vice President) Pence’ rang from the crowd as they broke into the Capital through smashed windows and doors.
So this is not a news story of the event it is a Blog post but the scene on this Putsch set out by Trump in his loss to Biden. It failed as Hitler’s but without the force found in Munich in 1923. Yet, the danger of the event is no less serious both in the reality that it happened and the political danger to the Democratic Republic of the United States. Trump has set the scene for years in exile and for him to build on his struggle against the unjust secret powers that removed him from office after one 4 year term. He as already called for his entire voting base of 72 million to look in the future and not give up hope on the struggle to save their democracy. Twitter removed his account calling that a call to arms.
Left alone for the next four years Trump will write his struggles in rants and posts. He will wield enormous political power as he claims he was wrongly removed from office. He has already begun to set the seed for his return re-election and for the end of the 22nd Amendment term limits on a President.
This danger is why Trump must be treated as Louis XVI or James I in a political sense, not the physical. He must be removed and banned not just from Twitter but from holding federal office ever again.
The Legislature cannot fight over it’s petty political scramble for any political power being left by the lost election by Trump. He is not going to anoint/approve a successor as long as he can claim the throne. That is not in his nature as his jailed personal lawyer Cohen explained to Congress a year ago. Despite the efforts of Mr. Hawley to usurp the Trump power, he cannot and now has blood on his hands for enabling the Putsch event. Hawley will become a pawn in Trump’s return by remaining a loyal officer in his guard of the patriotic army.
The Legislative Branch founded this Country in the 1700’s. Those in it participated in the writing revision and approval of the Constitution. Let’s pray that the Legislative Branch of the 2000’s has not lost sight of the true sense of Freedom and Democracy. Those founding members of the Legislative Branch formed the Presidency out of the need for a fluid Government. They fought hard to put in protections against a fraudulent demagogue who fools the common man. So now is the time for men to put Democracy and Country above party. The Legislature must protect our Democracy from these demagogues. The revolution is not in the streets but in the Congress.
From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend
The use of the White House by the Republican has indicted the entire party. The Republican Party is glorifying Trump using a house built with the use of enslaved Blacks. He angrily yells “we are here and they are not” and in that the White House was now owned by the Republicans and not remaining Americans walking on the Street. The Republican are practicing Schadenfreude almost calling for more riots to make their case. Republicans hide behind authoritarianism and IL-Liberalism while they fail to ask their elected party leader to pass legislation to change the local prejudice policies that militarize police, give them freedom from legal scrutiny after they commit violent acts and fails to provide for the environment that achieves equity of treatment. The Republicans have turned the White House Red
There are four things that George Washington famously wrote, June 8 1783, that were essential to the well being of The United States of America.
The indissoluble union of the states under one federal head
A sacred regard to public justice
The adoption of a proper peace establishment
The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies; to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity; and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Washington pointed out that these were needed for the existence of the United States as an independent power. He further declared that these pillars were the fabric of the United States independent national character. Whoever, “would dare to sap the foundation, or overrun the structure, under whatever specious pretext he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest excretions and the severest punishment which can be inflicted by his injured country”
The words stand on their own in condemnation of Trump and his efforts to destroy these pillars of our union as the United States. Trump’s attacks, for reason of personal power, use the individual prejudices within the nation to divide and further undermine the foundations upon which these pillars stand is self evident.
The current state of attacks and looting that occur alongside marches for general prosperity of Black people and protests against federal troops in Portland are only examples of the bitterest excretions and severest punishment on Trump who has injured our country with his disregard to care for these pillars while president.
ABSOLUTA LIBERTAS 