Dear Senator Lankford,
I hope this letter reaches you for it is very important to
me.
After the Alexandria shooting you asked us to tone down the
rhetoric. The thing is however for many
of us it is not just rhetoric but life or death issues that we struggle with
every day. Both parties have betrayed the American people and sold out to
corporate interests. Our anger is real, not just rhetoric and if you can
understand and choose to deal with it we may yet save our country.
I suspect most of your constituent are contacting you about
health care and many on climate change and the environment as well as
jobs. These are all important issues to
me as well. However the most important issue to me and the thing that helps me
fight through my pain and motivate me to volunteer for my PAC is the betrayal
of my government. Even though I cant find a job and am desperately waiting to
see if disability goes through in time it is my anger at President Trump and
the support he enjoys from the GOP. I find it hard to push past my depression
enough just to keep myself alive and do certain basic things that could extend
my life, pride kept me from asking for disability until it was probably too
late. Yet my anger and hatred can still
motivate me to try and keep him from destroying my country.
It is not just rhetoric but life and death and a betrayal of
a country I still love and want to protect.
I am not alone, the shooter in Alexandria in my view did not want to
kill anyone, I doubt anyone is that bad a shot. Instead I think he had given up on life an
wanted to make a political statement as his last act. Unlike right wing
conservative extremists he did not bomb a church, kill a little Muslim girl
with a bat, shoot up a gay night club, or any of the other things that seem to
be more and more common every year. Nor did he, like the desperate and hopeless
(or yes some of the mentally ill) go on a random shooting spree. Instead he made a patriotic act of defiance
and went for the leadership. I would prefer not to see any of that but if we
have to see more people killing people out of anger, frustration and sheer
desperation I hope you understand why I feel it should be more of the latter
than the former. It is not immigrants, the GLBTQ community, minorities, or
different religions that are destroying America it is our leadership.
All right I hope I have established how important I think
this issue is so now on to laying it out for you.
President Trump is guilty of lying with a frequency we have
never seen before, he violates the Emolument clause, attacks the media, uses
his office to advertise his properties and line his pockets, pushes away our
allies and embraces our enemies. All
while the GOP sings his praises, makes excuses for him and has become our
modern day Nero with Trump as the mother.
I do not regard the Democrats as much better but right now
you are in charge so the responsibility is yours. Having met you once I
consider you intelligent and I think actually care about the country. I don’t side with your views on many issues
but I hope I am right and you care for this country. I am not bothering with Senator Inhofe or Rep
Frank Lucas as I do not have the same impression and hope for them. Heck I can
even see the difference when I call your various staffs. I am volunteering for Brand New Congress as I
think it is the last hope for peaceful government reform. However your in
charge now and maybe, just maybe you can help stop the violence or even civil
war I see us headed towards.
As you sit on the Intelligence committee you have access to
more information than I do but let me list what I as a civilian see. President Trump did not win the election as a
conservative republican; he won as an anti-establishment candidate against a
corporate and establishment democrat. He had the lowest approval ratings of any
previous President and many people did not trust him. Yet people were desperate for change and he
promised that. They should have known better
and the GOP should have been able to choose someone else instead of him as the
best they had to offer. Both parties failed America. People are still desperate
and tired of being lied to and politicians choosing party over country. I
appeal to you to impeach him as soon as possible and curb his excesses as much
as possible until he becomes unpopular
enough the GOP is willing to do so. I appeal to your sense of morality and
patriotism as regards the following issues.
Turkey: He and
Flynn asked to hold off helping the Kurds against ISIS because Turkey wanted
that and both were taking money from the Turkish government. Flynn was directly
paid and Trump has a hotel they reportedly increased support for. As a member
of the Intelligence Committee I suspect you can easily check out how true this
is. If true I consider this treason as we are at war with ISIS.
Russia: There are
so many people around him with ties to Russia it is amazing the GOP does not
seem to care. Some of these may indeed
be legitimate, however why does he fight investigation so hard? Why did so many of his people withhold that
information on their security forms? Why did both Sessions and Comey testify
under oath that he never asked about election meddling? I was disappointed to
see you not press that issue. We have reports of financial ties to Russia and
China and I do not for a moment believe he will put the countries interests
over his business ones. Do you?
Allies: He treats
our allies as corporate rivals, treating handshakes as arm wrestling contests,
shoving a Prime Minister to get in front of the camera, lectures them in front
of the NATO 9-11 memorial with barely a mention of the sacrifice they went to
on our behalf at that time. I can barely walk and yet I would have walked with
them rather than follow in a golf cart. There is more but you are aware of
that.
Emolument and Graft:
He is in violation of this every day.
Diplomats and companies stay at his properties or pay club dues (which
he doubled at Mara Lago) for access. He
used the White House to advertise his property and has the taxpayer funnel
money into them for his weekend getaways and even official functions such as
meetings with ambassadors. Turkey moved their convention from the Ritz to his
place. China just happened to grant him and his family Trademarks. His brand is
growing and he is getting more and more wealthy and yet we do not even know how
deep his foreign ties are because he hides his taxes. He approved DAPLE while
holding stock in the company, he wants to sell off public lands to his friends
and make the bankers wealthy by deregulation (even though it will likely cause
another recession when we have to bail them out again).
Maybe the country could survive his bungling of foreign
affairs and general incompetence but that the GOP protects him on the above is
enraging. And it will cost them.
Thank you,
Rory Fansler veteran of the Cold War.