#157) Sen. Mitch McConnell

Senator Mitch McConnell

317 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, DC  20510

August 20, 2017

Dear Senator McConnell,

Sometimes doing the right thing means not doing the popular thing.  But in the case of removing Donald Trump from office you have the chance to do BOTH what is right and what is popular.  According to all current polling data Donald Trump is the most disliked president in our nation's history.  Obviously you can't impeach someone for being unpopular.  I know that.  But what we can impeach him for is being incompetent and a growing number of Americans are coming to the conclusion that he is just that: too incompetent to remain in office.

Right now Mr. Trump has an approval rating somewhere between 33-36%, but that percentage of the population will always support him, no matter what, because 33-36% of the general population are racist, bigoted and/or ignorant enough to believe that his charlatanism is charisma.  We can't erase or ignore that small percentage.  They are entitled to their opinions (it is a free country after all) and will never go away.  But the problem as I see it is that Donald Trump can't just be the president of that

33-36%.  He has to be the president of everyone, and it doesn't seem that he is willing to do that.

Throughout the campaign he sought to exploit socio-economic divisions for his own political gain rather than trying to unify the country.  That's mostly how he won.  Now that he is the President, however, he continues to fall back into that campaign-pattern except now the ramifications of his exploitation and divisiveness strategy are huge; big enough to cause dramatic and dangerous social unrest, and big enough to get innocent people killed. 

Donald Trump must be removed from office before the rioting we witnessed in Charlottesville, Virginia spreads like a disease across our country.  Already he has planned a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona for next week.  Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Governor Doug Ducey have asked him not to but he ignored their request and is moving full steam ahead...consequences be damned.  Donald Trump is unable to put the needs and safety of the citizens of this country ahead of his own ego and need for attention.  This isn't just recklessness, it is incompetence, it's dangerous, and it is a sign that the time has come to impeach him.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Amy Beaton