Paul Ryan
Office of the Speaker
H-232 The Capital
Washington, DC 20515
August 25, 2017
Dear Mr. Speaker,
I'm not sure if there's an official definition of the term crisis of government but I feel that
what we are experiencing now under the leadership of Donald Trump must be
pretty damn close. Clearly Congress is
unable to work with him (even though it is majority Republican) and doesn't
trust his judgment or they wouldn't have nearly unanimously passed the Russian
sanctions bill last month (98-2 in the Senate and 419-3 in the House) limiting
his power and ability to deal directly with Russia.
Here are a few other people who didn't seem to be able to
work with Mr. Trump:
Michael Flynn – National
Security Advisor
Katie Walsh –
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Preet Bharara –
US Attorney for the Southern District of NY
Derek Harvey –
Top Middle East Advisor for National Security Council
James Comey – FBI
Director
Reince Priebus –
Chief of Staff
Michael Dubke –
Communications Director
Walter Shaub –
Office of Government Ethics Director
Anthony Scaramucci
– Communications Director
Sean Spicer –
Press Secretary
Michael Short –
Press Aid
Steve Bannon –
Chief Strategist
Sally Yates -
Acting Attorney General
National
Infrastructure Advisory Council – resigned as a group in a letter stating: "Your actions have threatened the
security of the homeland I took an oath to protect." The Trump administration has not shown itself
to be "adequately attentive to the pressing national security matters
within the NIAC's purview or responsive to sound advice."
Daniel Kammen –
science envoy for the Department of State
President's Committee
on the Arts and Humanities – resigned as a group in a letter stating: "Your
values are not American values."
American
Manufacturing Jobs Council
Strategic and Policy
Forum
Dina Powell –
Senior counselor for economic initiatives
K.T. McFarland –
Deputy National Security Advisor
George Sifakis –
Director of the Office of Public Liaison
John Thompson –
Director US Census Bureau
Patrick Kennedy –
Under Secretary of State for Management
Sebastian Gorka –
White House Counterterrorism Advisor
Rabbi Emeritus Haskel
Lookstein – family friend, oversaw Ivanka's conversion to Judaism
Presidential Advisory
Council on HIV/AIDS – 6 of 18 members resigned
Now to be fair, some of these people didn't deserve their
positions in the first place (Steve Bannon leaps to mind) and some of them
didn't really have "official" positions in Mr. Trump's administration
(such as Rabbi Lookstein). And not all
of them quit, some were fired. But I
think this much turnover, regardless of the reason, in such a young
administration should be seen as a bellwether of a very frightening trend: nobody can work with Donald Trump. And that, to me, is a crisis of government.
It increasingly appears that senior and seasoned leaders
from across a spectrum of professional fields (political, business, economic,
scientific, spiritual, diplomatic, judicial) have no confidence in this administration or
the leadership abilities of Donald Trump.
This sentiment is echoed in the general population as well. According to a poll by Harris Insights and
Analytics, 43% of Americans say Donald Trump should be impeached or otherwise
removed from office, and with a population as large and diverse as the United States is, that's about as close as you're going to get to a general vote of no confidence. These numbers should mean something to you.
The time is now.
Please move quickly to enact impeachment proceedings against Donald
Trump and remove him from office before it is too late.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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