Senator Tim Scott
717 Hart Senate Office
Building
Washington, DC 20510
August 22, 2017
Dear Senator Scott,
For quite a while now
(since January 20 to be precise) there has been a hashtag trending. I know you've seen it. It says, #notmypresident. I'm writing today to let you know why Donald
Trump is not my president and why he
should be impeached and removed from office.
My concerns fall into two broad categories: 1) his lack of experience,
and 2) his temperament.
Donald Trump is the
only US president ever to have absolutely no political or military experience. He
seems to be very proud of this fact but it honestly scares the heck out of me,
especially when I hear him give a military speech like he did last night. It was a common Republican war-cry that
Barack Obama was too unseasoned for the White House (despite being a Senator
for 12 years) but now they all seem very willing to rally behind Mr. Trump
because being an "outsider" appeals to a large voter demographic
group. It feels like a marketing ploy
that a whole segment of the population has fallen for. And with the state that the world is in right
now, tensions rising on the Korean peninsula, Russia meddling with the
inner-workings of sovereign nations, and terrorism on the rise everywhere...I would
feel much more comfortable with a president who knew that the hell he was
doing.
Donald Trump's
temperaments is best described as unstable and unpredictable. Again, this is something that he is proud of.
He seems to not only embrace his instability, but at times to actively
cultivate it. Perhaps he thinks he can
use his reputation for unpredictability to unnerve and intimidate America's
adversaries into making concessions that they would not otherwise make. Richard Nixon tried something similar...it
didn't work then and it probably won't work now.
Back in June when
Mr.Trump's Russian scandal moved to a new, higher level of investigation I saw very clearly the
impact of both his lack of experience and unstable temperament. His fragile psyche and thin skin exacerbated
what would have been a difficult situation for any president to navigate. It was just 200x worse for him because of the
way he handled it (including outrageous and provocative early morning
tweets). He is unable to navigate the
complex world of government regulation/oversight because he doesn't understand
how the government even works. A better
politician would have known how to vet his campaign staff, how and when to meet
with foreign governments, and what is/isn't legal when it comes to opposition
research.
Last week when Mr.
Trump exacerbated racial tensions by NOT condemning white supremacists and
neo-Nazis, the entire board of the Presidential Commission on Arts and
Humanities resigned and they published a letter that perfectly summed up why
Donald Trump is #notmypresident:
"Supremacy, discrimination, and
vitriol are not American values. Your
values are not
American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear
to you, then we call on you to resign your office too."
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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