Senate Trial on Articles of Impeachment

An Important Time to Have Character

January 18, 2020

Stan Olmstead

To the Honorable U.S. Senators: Lamar Alexander and Marsha Blackburn

Impeachment has occurred and the articles are before the Senate. We have been witnessing for three years the obscenity of the Donald Trump administration, it is obvious and in plain sight. There are no surprises, the man has been selfish his entire life and has performed multiple ethical violations including numerous miss deeds of a legal nature. I plead with you as a U.S. Senator, a logical individual and as an American to reject what has been occurring during these past three years and stand above the Political Party allegiance and speak for ethical decency. It is time, an historic time and a time that will test your Character.  

One of the primary developments in Donald’s learning experience was from Roy Cohn, the infamous lawyer that advised Senator Joseph McCarthy during his “reign” of attacks on U.S. citizens in the early 1950’s accusing many U.S. Citizens of Un-American activities. If you know anything about American History, you also know that this was a low point of honor in America. Roy Cohn after the McCarthy era moved to New York City and represented the Trumps in a lawsuit and prosecution which argued Fred and Donald Trump discriminated due to “race” in their New York apartment rentals. There is little doubt that the discrimination had occurred and was real, but in the end little punitive measures materialized. 

Donald to this day patterns all things as Lawyer Cohn advised, developing his own mode of dishonesty and deceit to conduct his worldwide business in real-estate; bilking contractors, filing dubious law suits to avoid payments, the use of bankruptcy to avoid payments, skimming moneys during these protracted law suits and he most likely reported questionable tax returns. These many and “ugly” actions by Donald may or may not have been legal but obviously unethical. His effort of dishonesty in the form of lies and rhetorical argument assist Donald in his deceit towards nearly every issue at hand; business, personal or political. 

His alliance with Russia and Vladimir Putin is a known fact and it is known that his business interests, loans, and other activities have included Russia. His son Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged their financial needs from Russian in the past. The Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election although with some unknown facts clearly demonstrates the Russian connection. Robert Mueller’s report, indictments and prosecution of numerous individuals clearly show a Russian connection and yet the GOP has no complaints? Attorney General William Barr’s depiction of the Mueller report can only be summarized as a “ruse”.  

This then brings us to Ukrainian issue and Trumps continued effort to subvert the U.S. Constitution in working with foreign governments for personal gain whether political or economic and we know that his political wants, his personal wants and his economic wants are all for aggrandizement and financial gain. This Ukrainian issue has at last forced the Democrats to present articles of impeachment to the Senate. The question now is will you as a Senator from Tennessee review Trump’s history, the Mueller Report, be bipartisan while listening to witnesses that provide evidence to support these articles presented by the House and determine if under the Constitution this “rouge” President should be removed from office for “high crimes and misdemeanors”? You know that much of the U.S. Citizenry has little knowledge of American History and have difficulty in following the unjust activities of the opposing parties in American politics but you as a Senator are on the front line, with staff to inform you of the truth, will you show honor and stand as an enlightened individual and reject the obscenity that is presently occupying the White House?

Donald’s lack of work ethics where he is constantly away and disengaged, his extreme golfing excursions at tax payer expense, his violation of the Emolument clause of the Constitution whether insisting that the Vice President room at his Irish resort while in Ireland, the acceptance of military personnel at his Scottish resort, his initial suggestion of the G-7 being held at his Florida resort, all and all a failure of ethical consideration and a disappointment that emolument violations are not also within the impeachment articles.

Donald has verbally assaulted many good people without cause, an action that if for any other would be condemned. His “all roads lead to Putin” activity is so in the extreme and obvious and yet the GOP excuses the action. The impeachment process has moved forward with articles now before the Senate. This indictment is the first half a crucial need to save America from what the founding fathers feared and which they provided a Constitutional solution and an avenue of escape from an incompetent and selfish executive. The Mueller report is clear that if not for the Presidency Donald Trump would have been indicted. Now with the indictment via the impeachment in the Senate it is now your time to show honor for justice in our Nation’s highest office. Will the Senate vote Party Allegiance and support this faulty executive or will the Senate realize the serious nature of what is before the nation and remove this demagogue? Will a responsible Senator step up and vote their sincere conscience without regard for elections, campaign donations, party loyalty and the like? Will they be honorable and vote to remove the president for the good of the Nation? It is in your hands as one of the one hundred Senators to save the nation from this scourge.      

I plead with you to do the right thing at this crucial moment and speak out against Trump during this process and speak up for the Constitution and remove Trump from the presidency and have the GOP return to honor and select a presidential candidate in the 2020 election that has honor. It is your time to show Character!