Friday, August 18, 2017

#155) to Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House


Paul Ryan
Office of the Speaker
H-232 The Capital
Washington, DC  20515

August 18, 2017

Dear Mr. Speaker,

Republicans love to remind people that they are the Party of Lincoln for all of the greatness and gravitas that that evokes.  They said it so much at the 2016 national convention that it began to sound like a college drinking game.  But that's OK.  Abraham Lincoln was a brave and noble leader, someone to be proud of and worth striving to emulate.  But here's what the Republican Party is facing today... being known for the next 100 years as the Party of Trump.  Are you prepared for that and for all of the ego-maniacal ridiculousness that that evokes?

Donald Trump needs to be impeached and removed from office.  Now.  Today.  Not next month and not the next time he does or says something extreme or stupid (or extremely stupid).  But right now.  We the people of the United States of America deserve better than a president who can't tell fact from fiction, who's emotional instability is on public display daily, who doesn't understand the rules and responsibilities of the office (and who shows no desire to learn about them), who can't speak in complete or coherent sentences, who puts his very fragile ego ahead of the needs of the people, who is not willing to publicly disavow Nazi supporters, who lies and deceives and is in personal debt to foreign nations.  This is not OK with me and it is becoming increasingly not OK with the majority of Americans.

So how about it... are you ready to be remembered as a member of the Party of Trump?  Have you thought about your legacy as Speaker of the House and how it will feel to be known as the guy who didn't stop Donald Trump when he had the chance?  Well now is the time to start thinking about it.  Don't be the man who stood silently by and watched but refused to take a stand.  As Albert Einstein so famously said, "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

As Speaker of the House you can act to remove Donald Trump from office now.  Before it is too late.

Sincerely,
Amy Beaton

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