I recently received an email survey from Congresswoman
Katherine Clark (D – Mass.). The email asked if I wanted the Senate to provide a “fair”
impeachment trial of Pres. Donald Trump.
What follows below is my response to the Congresswoman and is based on what
I know of the issue(s) and upon the overall hypocrisy of it all:
January 20, 2020
Congresswoman Clark,
Regarding your email survey demanding
a “fair impeachment trial” of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate (“House
Sends Trump Impeachment Articles to the Senate,” of 1/15/20): The impeachment
of President Trump is a disgrace and appears as a dereliction of duty by the
U.S. House of Representatives. Foremost, it is a disgrace to impeach a
President - who was elected by sixty million voters - on hearsay alone. Furthermore,
the impeachment proceedings in your House of Representatives seemed to be the
unfair process. Where was your survey demanding a fair process then?
The hypocrisy of your claiming the “unfair” process yet to come in the Senate
is not lost on most of us, when the whole impeachment process in your House of
Representatives appeared as nothing but political partisanship and
grandstanding.
To impeach a President who was
elected by sixty million voters and to not present the supposed hearsay "whistle-blower"
declarant to the process or to not present that declarant to the people/nation,
a declarant upon whose words were the impeachment process was based, seems to
flaunt the deranged nature of your legislature and attests to your obvious
hatred of President Donald Trump. For instance, typically a litigant can not
win a legal dispute on hearsay alone. Yet,
your apparently deranged House of Representatives seems to believe that hearsay
alone is adequate to impeach a seated U.S. President – again, a President who
received sixty million votes.
Moreover, with all the major problems
facing the nation, your legislature chose to spend the nation's valuable time,
resources, and tax-dollars to impeach a President of whom you don’t approve. The impeachment merely appears as though your
political party and its followers can not accept that Trump beat your preferred
candidate in the general election. I mean…, the next election is not that
far away. Couldn’t your legislature address the pressing problems facing
the nation as opposed to pursuing your obvious hatred of Trump? Apparently
not, huh?
As for military aid to Ukraine, anytime
our nation gives aid to another nation, we should get something in return for our
tax-dollars. Your party and your fellow
insider politicians have been giving away nearly everything the nation has to
offer, it seems. And you rarely seem to
get anything in return for the taxpayers – other than the resentment of our nation
by those to whom we give our tax-dollars in the form of international aid.
For your information, many of us did
not like Obama - who reportedly was too fearful of Russia and Putin to give any
meaningful military aid to Ukraine. But those of us who did not care for
Obama dealt with his election victories like adults, for the most part - not
like deranged individuals who forever cried like babies for Obama's
impeachment. Also, your legislature's
impeachment of Trump clearly sets a bad precedent for the next time a President
is not liked by a House of Representatives who is under the control of the
opposing party.
Finally, anytime any politician can
expose any corruption or insider influence peddling - which had clearly been
happening with the Bidens and the Obama White House (and other insider
politicians in Congress too, apparently), that politician should expose such
corruption for any reason and under any circumstances (as was Trump looking to
expose, I'm sure). For any legislature to reprimand or censure any
politician for exposing corruption for any reason is surely a dereliction of
duty by that legislature (regardless if the exposure of corruption is self-serving
or otherwise). The subsequent impeachment of Trump seems to say that your
legislature wants no exposure of the corruption that could be underway by your
political-insider buddies in power. A demand for "business as
usual" seems to the moral of your impeachment process.
Congresswoman Clark, I trust freedom
of speech has not become too unpopular with your legislature or political party
as well. That is to say, the freedom of
speech of differing viewpoints with which you clearly don’t agree does not also
deserve censure, I assume. Modernly,
however, it seems like those of you who suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome”
believe that your opinions are the only opinions deserving of any freedoms allowing
for expression. Nevertheless, please let
me know your thoughts and comments to the matters herein, if you would be so
kind.
Sincerely,
Adam Trotter
XXX-XXX-XXXX (cell)
