Five months ago, I wrote to you demanding president Trump's impeachment. In the intervening months, the case for impeachment has only grown, and today it came to a shocking head:
At a remarkable 46-minute joint news conference inside the Finnish presidential palace, Trump would not challenge Putin’s claim that the Russian government played no role in trying to sabotage the U.S. election, despite the Justice Department’s indictments Friday of 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking Democratic emails as part of a broad subterfuge operation to help Trump win the election.
Trump went on to condemn the expansive federal investigation of Russian interference as “a disaster for our country” and “a total witch hunt,” arguing that the probe, along with “foolish” American policies, had severely impaired relations between the two countries.Russia's attack on America during the 2016 elections is irrefutable fact. This is the conclusion drawn by the House and Senate intelligence committees, and the full U.S. intelligence community, as well as Trump's own Director of National Intelligence. And yet the president has elected to stand on foreign soil, side-by-side with the architect of that attack, and announce to the world that he puts more trust in the denial of a brutal dictator than he does in America's intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
If this is not an impeachable offense, sir, then what is?
I am not alone in this view. Former CIA Director John Brennan called Trump's behavior "nothing short of treasonous", while former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said the president "failed America today", and Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said "the President of the United States essentially capitulated and seems intimidated by Vladimir Putin". Clapper has previously stated that he considers the president to be a Russian "asset".
You swore and oath, congressman. And while it's clear that the Republican caucus has decided to look the other way, the American people have not. A day of reckoning will come, sir. So what you need to decide is whether you want to be remembered as a Republican who put country over party, or whether you want to be remembered as complicit in the greatest act of cowardice our country has seen.
