Donald Trump has taken several steps recently that give us new reasons to eject him from the White House, but he may self-destruct before we can get to him.<\/p>\n
Begin with his latest actions that should make us want to eject him.<\/p>\n
It hasn\u2019t gained a lot of media attention, but Trump issued an executive order recently that, if declared legal, would create specially trained National Guard units that could take control of law enforcement anywhere in the United States if public safety demanded it. In other words, Trump is trying to give himself the power to control local law enforcement nationwide \u201cin case public safety demands it,\u201d and he alone would choose when that might be. Once that infrastructure is in place, little would prevent him from turning it against civilians.<\/p>\n
Is Trump using Washington as a testing ground for that? It would appear so. He\u2019s already threatened to send troops into Baltimore, Chicago, New York and perhaps other politically blue cities, even though red cities \u2013 such as Oklahoma City, Miami, Fresno, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth — have much higher crime rates.<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t it amazing that Trump croons about reducing crime just days after he freed more than 1,000 people who had been convicted of attacking our Capitol while Congress was in session? Attacking police officers with baseball bats? Causing deaths and millions of dollars in damage?<\/p>\n
He talks about reducing crime, and yet he has been convicted of committing 34 felonies, stands credibly charged with committing 57 more, has been convicted of sexually abusing a woman (the judge said it was rape) and stands credibly accused by many more women of similar conduct — and yet he wants to protect us from criminals. Do you feel safer now that you know Donald Trump wants to protect you from criminals?<\/p>\n
But getting back to that National Guard order. That\u2019s just one of several new reasons \u2013 I emphasize new — why Trump must go.<\/p>\n
Another is that Trump has started seriously pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to address climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal, even though it is damaging, expensive to extract and pollutes our environment. At the same time, Trump is doing everything he can to defund and discourage development of solar and wind power, which is free, clean, and falls plentifully and endlessly from the skies. And it\u2019s all to put more money in the pockets of his billionaire oil buddies. Damn<\/em> it!<\/p>\n Another: He embarrassed America by letting Putin rub his nose in it during their meeting in Alaska, and he keeps on letting him.<\/p>\n According to U.S. and Western officials, Russia has begun flying surveillance drones over U.S. weapons routes in eastern Germany, collecting intelligence that could be used to bolster the Kremlin\u2019s sabotage campaign and assist its troops in Ukraine — and Trump is doing nothing to contest it.<\/p>\n Further, Russia\u2019s attacks on Ukraine have increased dramatically since that Alaska meeting, and since Trump called for peace. Also, Trump apparently has backed off threats to sharply increase sanctions on Russia if Russia doesn\u2019t reach a peace agreement with Ukraine, which it hasn\u2019t and won\u2019t. It makes one wonder if maybe Putin really does have something on Trump and is blackmailing him — Epstein files, perhaps?<\/p>\n There are other reasons we need to get rid of Trump \u2013 soon. He is increasingly showing signs advancing age and mental decline. He reads aloud well but let him speak on his own and he wanders all over hell and back, and often he makes no sense whatsoever. His keepers are doing all they can to limit public appearances where he may make a fool of himself.<\/p>\n It makes me dream of the Constitution\u2019s 25th Amendment, Section 4, which allows the vice president, together with most of the Cabinet or another body designated by Congress, to submit a written declaration to Congress that the president is unable to perform his duties. Upon that declaration, the vice president immediately assumes authority as acting president, and even JD Vance would be an improvement.<\/p>\n
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