My E-Mail today to Speaker Pelosi Concerning Her Failure to Act
Dear Speaker Pelosi,
On June 15 I sent you a note, which I copy below, concerning your utter failure up to that time to undertake strong actions against the egregiously criminal activities of the Trump administration. What have you done since then? I’ll tell you. NOTHING! You still have not authorized the commencement of impeachment proceedings against Trump, and his henchman. You can’t even bring yourself and the Congress to take real and stern steps regarding the enforcement of subpoenas. All you do is stand by while Trump and his criminal gang thumb their noses at what is to all intents and purposes a Do Nothing Congress.
Time is running out in this country, further inaction on your part and on the parts members of Congress is extremely dangerous and totally unacceptable. Every day Trump is taking illegal (unconstitutional) steps to wrongly appropriate powers that belong to Congress or to the Judiciary. He claims the power to grant complete testimonial immunity, not only to current White House and administration operatives, not only to people who were involved in his campaign or his transition, but also to people who are civilians and never had a formal connection with government – and he does this without the slightest hint of a justification in law or under the Constitution. Now he is about to disregard and override the clear decision of the Supreme Court regarding the 2020 census with a totally illegal “executive order.” If the Congress – that means you as Speaker of the House – does nothing to counter these power grabs, they will constitute a fait accomplish and the Constitution and our nation will be a dead letter. This massive and outrageous Abuse of Power by Trump must be stopped NOW!
Below is the text of my June 15 note to you:
Email to Speaker Pelosi sent 6/15/2019
Dear Speaker Pelosi
There is no longer any excuse not to commence impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump and against at least two members of his cabinet -- AG William Barr and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.
We have been served-up by you and by other weak willed Democrats various grounds for not immediately moving expressly toward impeachment. This week, as a result of the release of portions of George Stephanopolous's interview of Trump, we have seen Trump openly invite violation of Federal Election Campaign Act (e.g., 52 USC Sec. 30121 et al) by stating that he would look at and consider what he calls Oppo Research provided by a foreign government and would not report such proffer to the FBI. This policy is one he has already acted upon during the 2016 election. He has thus committed actually completed crimes in this regard in the past and he sees nothing wrong with committing them again. This behavior is plainly impeachable. Trump's conduct in this regard is notorious and out in the open; it needs no evidentiary hearing to support the drafting and approval by the House of an Article of impeachment. And there are numerous other acts of open and notorious behavior by Trump warranting their own Articles of impeachment. (For example, his egregious and open flaunting misuse of the 'executive privilege - which amounts to Obstruction of Congress and Obstruction of Justice)
In addition there are Trump's numerous and egregious acts of Obstruction of Justice and Subornation chronicled in the Mueller report.
As to AG Barr - he has lied to congress; he has assisted Trump in concealing evidence from various House Committees and thus apparently committing obstruction of justice. Further, yesterday, he disgracefully authorized the release of a totally disingenuous memo purporting to justify the Treasury Secretary's and the IRS Commisioner's refusal to provide requested tax information concerning Donald Trump to Chairman Neal of the Ways and Means Committee.. This frivolous memo thus aides and abets the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commisioner of the IRS in their violation of 26 USC section 6103(f)(1) which is a crime under 26 USC 7214(a). It is simply not enough to cite AG Barr for civil contempt of Congress - he needs to be removed from office by impeachment.
As to the Treasury Secretary himself, as pointed out above, by failing to provide the requested tax information concerning Donald Trump as requested by Chairman Neal, Secretary Mnuchin (along with the IRS Commissioner) has violated section 6103 and is thus criminally liable under section 7214 which calls for a $10,000 fine and/or imprisonment for up to 5 years. This felony violation surely warrants the impeachment of Mr. Mnuchin.
But what do you to bring about the necessary impeachment proceedings. Actually, nothing! If we think of the United States Constitution as living body, then the impeachment clause is like one of its arms. Continued failure to use that clause when it is - as now - plainly warranted, will cause that "arm" to wither away - to atrophy - and never again be available no matter how plainly it is justified. Your continued failure to act - and act now - therefore cannot be justified by political considerations and will constitute a dereliction of your duty as a constitutional officer of the United States government.
The time has come - do your duty and save what's left of our great country.
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