Where’s the Outrage?

When I consider all the crimes Donald Trump has committed since he took office last January, including one and probably two capital crimes, and all the impeachable offences he has committed, and I watch him blithely continuing his crimes and getting away with it, I have to ask: Where’s the outrage?

Here’s a person who should be in prison, probably on death row, but instead he sits in the White House and considers himself to be the King of the United States. He has said as much. He acts as much.

“I (have) the right to do anything that I want to do,” he once told his Cabinet. “I’m the president of the United States.”

Congress, the Supreme Court, the news media, We the People, everyone, should be screaming to get him out of Washington now, but it isn’t happening. The news media is largely playing down his cruel dictatorship – e.g. using phrases like “testing the limits of” instead of calling it what it is: premeditated murder, for example — and MAGA-controlled Washington is going along with him, so he has no reason to change.

Just begin with the 14 murders we know about that he has committed, first-degree murders according to legal minds. He had evidence – but no proof — that a speedboat suspected of carrying drugs and 11 terrorists was heading to the United States, so he decided we were under attack, claimed that gave him the right to declare war rules, and that gave him the legal right to kill anyone anywhere, including inside the United States. Which he did, killing eleven men.

He’s dead wrong on all counts. Only Congress has the power to declare war rules and it had not done so, drug-running is not a capital crime, and by the time Trump gave the order to destroy the boat and kill all its occupants, the boat had turned around and was headed for Venezuela – not the United States.

And then he did it again to another boat, killing three more men. Again, no charges. No proof. No chance for them to defend themselves. No due process. Open and shut case of premeditated murder. But where’s the outrage?

Yet, those murders are just the beginning. He may have committed treason, another crime that can carry the death penalty, when he threatened to use the U.S. military to attack Chicago. Constitutional expert Paul Gowder says that could qualify for treason. Trump didn’t attack Chicago, of course, choosing instead to send troops to a more-receptive Memphis (Republican governor).

And then there are the Epstein files. Trump promised during his campaign that he would release them, but once he learned they name him “multiple times” he began doing everything in his power to keep them secret.

Essentially, it appears that Trump joined his good friend Jeffrey Epstein in having sex with young girls – in other words, raping them. Statutory rape is not a capital crime, but it could land him in prison for 20-30 years and probably require him to register as a sex offender when/if released.

But even if Trump didn’t join Epstein in raping young girls, he knew Epstein was and he didn’t do anything about it. We know that for a fact. Trump admitted as much when he grinningly said, “He (Epstein) likes them young.” To my mind, aiding and abetting child rape by not reporting it is almost as bad as committing it.

And then, in addition to the crimes, there are all those unconstitutional actions he has taken that demand his impeachment. Lawyers for Free Speech for People have prepared a resolution that details 17 impeachable offenses Trump has committed since January. That’s 17 offenses, not to be confused with the number of times he has committed them. He has committed some of the articles a handful of times, and some thousands of times. You can read all 76 pages of the articles at impeachtrumpagain.org, but a condensation
of them follows this paragraph. I warn you, reading the list of all his breaches is exhausting, almost unbelievable.

One. “Unlawful mobilization of military forces against civilian protesters in the United States.” Trump mobilized 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 U.S. Marines into Los Angeles in response to civilian protests that did not qualify as a rebellion or insurrection, and he did so over the governor’s protests.

Two. “Illegally and unconstitutionally kidnapping and imprisoning U.S. residents.” Trump ordered hundreds of people who peacefully live in the United States rounded up, imprisoned under brutal circumstances, and sometimes removed to from the U.S., without any due process and in violation of their rights.

Three. “Illegally and unconstitutionally removing U.S. residents, migrants, and asylum-seekers to foreign prisons.” This refers to the hundreds of brown-skinned people he sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador; Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia; the 100 migrants he sent to Panama because their own country would not accept them; the Venezuela men he sent to the El Salvador prison without allowing them due process; and he said he also would send U.S. citizens to that El Salvador prison.

Four. “Unlawfully and unconstitutionally attempting to deport immigrants for peacefully protesting.” Trump ordered the expulsion of people who were permanent residents or lawfully present in this country because they exercised their First Amendment rights.

Five. “Unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s powers.” Trump created the “Department of Government Efficiency,” blocked funds that Congress ordered spent, and imposed tariffs on foreign nations – all unconstitutional acts even though the MAGA-controlled Congress let him get away with them.

Six. “Defying court orders and usurping judicial authority.” Trump refused for more than two months to comply with multiple court orders, including from the Supreme Court, to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back to the United States from the maximum-security prison in El Salvador where Trump had illegally sent him. Trump also refused to comply with multiple court orders to spend $2 billion foreign-assistance funding that Congress had approved; refused to comply with multiple court orders to suspend all pauses or freezes to federal funding by the Office of Management and Budget; removed 261 Venezuelan immigrants to that El Salvadoran prison in open defiance of a court order, then demanded the judge’s impeachment because he disagreed with
the judge’s decision; abruptly and unlawfully removed eight immigrants from the United States to countries other than their homes in direct defiance of a court order; abruptly and unlawfully ordered the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a Brown University medical school professor, despite knowledge of an imminent court order that would disallow it; and repeatedly asserted that his administration is not bound by court orders and demanded the impeachment of judges who ruled against him.

Seven. “Terminating DOJ and FBI officials based on retribution.” The article refers to thousands of individual cases.

Eight. “Co-opting and dismantling federal agencies for corrupt purposes.” Trump prevented independent government oversight of his own business entities and those of his benefactors.

Nine. “Unlawfully imposing tariffs.” The Constitution grants Congress, and Congress alone, the power to impose tariffs on other countries. Yet, Trump is imposing tariffs on countries all over the world. The fact that the MAGA-run Congress is letting him do it does not matter.

Ten. “Receiving foreign and domestic emoluments.” The gifts Trump has received include a jet plane, “a flying palace,” from Qatar; gifts from other foreign governments; and gifts from domestic sources to himself and his businesses. He also allowed Elon Musk to receive gifts from people who were under his (DOGE’s) control, which could be considered bribes.

Eleven. “Unconstitutionally usurping state authority.” Trump has sued states for refusing to spend their resources to perform federal immigration functions, threatened criminal and civil sanctions against state and local governments who do the same, threatened to withhold congressionally appropriated funds from state and local governments that do the same, and unconstitutionally mobilized the National Guard troops and U.S. Marines in California and other states.

Twelve. “Improperly using emergency and wartime powers.” Trump labeled immigration at our southern border an “invasion” and a “national emergency,” which it certainly was not. He declared a national emergency, where there was none, to evade regulation limitations on fossil fuel to block development of renewable resources. He deported Venezuelans without using laws governing the expulsion of foreigners. And he claimed trade developments and drug-dealing were reasons to declare national emergencies, and they obviously were
not.

Thirteen. “Abusing the pardon power.” The article lists Trump’s pardon of the 1,500 insurrectionists who were convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep it from doing its Constitutional duty and name Joe Biden president; people who have given him money or other gifts to obtain pardons; rich men convicted of fraud and tax evasion; political supporters; men who have led international criminal enterprises; business allies who have committed bribery; other forms of corruption; and anti-abortion activists who blockaded an abortion clinic, obstructed staff and injured a nurse.

Fourteen. “Corruptly dismissing criminal charges against Eric Adams and investigating DOJ officials based on retribution.” Trump dismissed criminal charges against the New York City mayor in return for Adams’ agreeing to enforce Trump’s federal immigration agenda, then Trump retaliated against the U.S. attorney who resigned rather than file the motion, and against other U.S. attorneys assigned to the Adams prosecution.

Fifteen: “Depriving citizens of their birthright citizenship.” Trump attempted to deprive U.S. citizens of their citizenships, privileges and immunities afforded to them by the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside…”

Sixteen. “Impeding and obstructing efforts to secure United States elections and protect against cyber-attacks.” Trump ordered the apolitical Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to halt all its election security work pending a review of its work; blocked funding for a group committed to coordinating election security efforts; fired 130 CISA cybersecurity professionals; disbanded the FBI task force assigned to investigate unlawful foreign influence on U.S. politics and elections; and blocked CISA and the FBI from investigating and responding swiftly to interference in U.S. elections.

Seventeen. “Planning the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza.” Trump has repeatedly declared his intention to unlawfully and forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza and for the United States to unlawfully occupy the land and financially profit from its development.

Put it all together, all Trump’s crimes and his impeachable offenses, and it is amazing he is still in office. But he is, and where’s the outrage?

We all know that had Joe Biden or Barack Obama committed any one of those constitutional breaches, or even one of his capital crimes or his child-related crimes, he would have been drummed out of office long ago. Why hasn’t Trump been?

There are so many other reasons why we need to expel Trump from the White House now, the sooner the better but certainly not wait on the 2028 elections. He spurned the people who elected him, the farmers, rural folks, veterans, small businesspersons, true Republicans, others. He promised prices would decrease but because of his decisions they are rising. Food prices are skyrocketing. He fully supports a constitutional convention because he knows it will cement him in as a lifetime dictator. And so much more. So much.
But where is the outrage?

If Congress and all the rest of Washington’s power people won’t be outraged at all this, it’s up to We the People. Our next big chance will be the nationwide No Kings Day on Oct. 18. Please, if at all possible, be there. We need all the voices we can get.

It’s up to us now, and us alone. We will win, but only if we show up, speak out, never give up,
and vote.

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