On January 20th, 2017, Donald John Trump took an Oath of Office which obligated him to protect the United States from all enemies, foreign or domestic, and preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yesterday, July 16th, 2018, “a day which will live in infamy,” Donald John Trump did the one thing no President of the United States has ever done; gave “aid and comfort” to an enemy, Russia, which has been engaged in a cyberwar against the United States. It isn’t necessary to detail the myriad other things Trump has done to destroy everything this nation has stood for since its inception. It isn’t necessary to decide whether one likes or hates Mr. Trump, It is only necessary to read the Constitution, as it was adopted in 1789:
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.[1]”
Since most of the world was witness to Mr. Trump’s “aid and comfort” to Vladimir Putin, the President of a nation which declared itself our enemy when it committed an Act of War against the United States in 2016 (an act of which we have amassed ample proof), his behavior falls squarely within the shadow of that definition. The only question now is what can and must be done to try to reverse the damage to the United States and the world.
That answer, also, is given by the Constitution when it declares:
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.[2]”
Since both houses of Congress are controlled by the President’s political party (Republican), and they have previously given in to his every whim as if they were a king’s parliament rather than the US Congress, will they fulfill their duty to act? Time is short and neither History nor the voters will look kindly upon legislators so filled with fear of the President that they, too, abandon their oaths of office. This is not a partisan issue. I am a Democrat, I am a Republican, and I am an independent and I call for the immediate action of Congress to rid the United States of the pestilence that is Donald John Trump. The last national leader to commit a similar act was British Prime Minister Nevil Chamberlain who, after meeting with Adolf Hitler in September, 1938 returned to England to declare that “Mr. Hitler has assured me that we will have peace for our time;” and we all know how that movie ended.
[1] Constitution of the United States, Article III, Section 3
[2] Ibid, Article II, Section 4
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