Trump will use every power he has to get re-elected

President Donald Trump will do anything to get reelected.

That includes asking leaders of a foreign country to find dirt on one of his political opponents.

That includes withholding U.S. military aid until that foreign government agrees to do what they are told.

The president claims he never actually threatened to hold up $250 million in military aid for Ukraine. There was no quid pro quo, he contends. He just kept the money until his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, visited the country to deliver Trump’s message.

The president also made a few phone calls and talked about his concern regarding corruption in Ukraine. And then he waited to see what would happen.

Get the idea. Wink, wink.

The U.S. secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, endorses that sort of dirty dealing. He was the former director of the CIA under Trump. He is making it clear that he will back Trump’s re-election at any cost.

The U.S. treasury secretary is also speaking out on behalf of the president’s negotiations with Ukraine. What is the U.S. secretary of the treasury doing on political talk shows defending Trump’s 2020 campaign tactics?

That’s his job. Everyone who works for the U.S. government now works for Trump 2020. If you are a patriotic American who blows the whistle on shady dealings, you better watch out.

The U.S. attorney will use the FBI and all the resources of the Justice Department to investigate your behavior. The feds may even investigate your family and friends.

The president of the United States, who does not even know your identity, will call you a traitor and claim you are out to destroy this country.

For you cannot be critical of Trump and remain loyal to the United States. If you try to tell your story to the U.S. Congress, if you want to get the facts to the people, the U.S. attorney will stop you.

Heck, Trump may even claim presidential privilege. It’s nobody’s business what he’s doing in the White House.

All of this was clear to me back in April when I warned Democrats that they had better impeach Trump, which they seem prepared to do now that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched an impeachment inquiry. I suggested he would use all of his presidential powers to smear any political opponent.

I believe Trump would cancel the election if he thought he might lose. The government might need time, like four years, to determine if allegations of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election were valid.

Might that foreign interference be at the request of the president himself?

Sure. Anything is possible.

Trump has ordered anyone who works for him not to cooperate with congressional probes of obstruction of justice. He has nothing but contempt for Congress.

And every time some Trump lackey says “screw you,” Democrats in Congress look like the astonished Cosmo Kramer stumbling into Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment. They can’t believe it.

Republicans defend their president. They fear a backlash by GOP voters if they criticize Trump, even after he admits asking a foreign leader to investigate the family of Joe Biden, a former vice president of the United States and Democratic candidate for president.

They worry more about re-election than their constitutional duty.

When Democrats have launched congressional inquiries, they have proven so inept at questioning witnesses that you can understand why Pelosi fears a full-blown impeachment hearing.

Countless Americans have died to preserve our liberty and our government. But members of Congress are unwilling to risk their paychecks and elected office.

Trump would not have had the courage to make his extortionist phone calls to the Ukraine if Congress had not so badly mishandled the Mueller report.

Trump is not the only American who has contempt for Congress now. Our elected leaders are morally bankrupt and have no spine. They have failed to protect our government.

Impeaching Trump may be the only hope this nation has left.

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