Dec 16, 2018 2 min read

The president has demonstrated his self-centered, reckless nature once again. As the noose tightens around him through alleged criminal activity and the prospect of impeachment or indictment is dangled, he tells us that if he were impeached, there would be a public revolt, something which he does not seek to discourage.

In advance of the 2016 presidential election, Trump told us that if he did not win, there would be riots, again doing nothing to indicate that such civil unrest should not take place.

The message is that the president seeks to hold us hostage: If I do not win or if I am removed from office, the country will disintegrate.

For now, he is shielded by Republican members of Congress, outgoing longtime Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a prime hypocrite, stating regarding the potential for prosecution of the president, “I don’t care” because Hatch sees the president as doing a good job. Even if he were doing a good job, do we now allow crooks to lead the free world if we are in sync with them ideologically? What of our moral standing in the eyes of our people and the rest of the world?

The future of our democracy and our Constitution must not be placed in peril by the actions of one man who is wholly unsuited to public service and who may well have engaged in criminality. We must push forward with appropriate action if it is found that he violated the law and let the chips fall where they may.

Oren Spiegler

South Strabane Township