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DEAR EDITOR:
This is the oath taken by Donald J. Trump:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and. defend the Constitution of the United States."
This is what he has done:
● Violated the First Amendment right of freedom of speech by denying access to federal courts to lawyers he does not like and their clients if they have sued him.
● Violated the First Amendment by denying reporters from the Associated Press access to White House briefings or travel with other reporters granted access solely because the AP refuses to require its reporters to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America as Trump has claimed it to be without reason or authority to do so.
● Allowed access to secret and sensitive personal data of SS beneficiaries by unelected employees of the White House compromising the security of citizens.
● Permitted persons not members of his Cabinet into Cabinet meetings without clearance or need-to-know information under discussion thus endangering state secrets.
● Usurped the constitutional right of Congress to control distribution of government funds to programs authorized by Congress.
● Fired, without cause or required notice, key public service employees resulting in disruption of services to citizens for no reason.
● Unlawfully snatching people from the street and transporting them to prisons here and abroad without constitutionally required notice or due process hearings.
● Publicly assailing courts that rule, as guided by law, against 47 and suggesting for no other opinion or fact they should be impeached.
● Deliberately endangering the lives of former officials by canceling the security team protection to which they are entitled post service when threats to their lives exist.
● Abusing "war powers" granted to his office though no conflict, let alone war, exists despite his assertion it does
At what point will this president's churlish, childish and dangerous shredding of the Constitution make clear he has abandoned his sworn oath in pursuit of personal power and committed high crimes or misdemeanors worthy of impeachment to do so? I feel that, if Congress fails to take heart and reclaim powers granted it by the Constitution, it soon will be complicit in the rise of a despot.
JIM CARTWRIGHT
Canfield