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Marlo's avatar

Trump & Vance should be BOTH be IMPEACHED for TREASON (aiding and abetting the enemy - Russia). They are both Russian assets, it’s obvious.

Contact your representatives:

(202) 225-3121

First, Trump had been in contact with Putin, negotiating Ukraine, BEFORE and WITHOUT Zelensky, our ally. Very insulting and not how you negotiate peace.

Second, Trump called Zelensky, the respected, President of a DEMOCRACY with 75% of the votes, a “dictator!” Saying he wasn’t having free elections! He also said Ukraine can’t join NATO. Sounds like Putin’s demands. Another insult.

Third, Trump (I won’t call him president because of the illegally purged black votes & hacked tabulators Harris is the true president!) announced Ukraine “started the war.” Either Trump has severe dementia or he is stupid; both a possibility. It was Russia who invaded Ukraine, REPEATEDLY. THEY are the AGGRESSORS!

Fourth, just arriving at the White House from a ravaged war torn country, dignified President Zelensky is immediately criticized by Trump for what he was wearing! Musk, the richest man in the world, wears t-shirts & baseball caps & emphasizes his disrespect by bringing his 3 year old son to the oval office who then proceeds to pick the buggars out of his nose, putting them on the Lincoln desk.

With Trump’s prior insulting comments (lies) made about him, insulting him by not meeting with Zelensky FIRST, but meeting with the war criminal dictator & aggressor Putin, that’s enough to make anyone upset. Trump & Vance had NO excuse.

Fourth, THINK of what Zelensky went through to just to get to the White House from a ravaged country of 3 years. No airports. Helicopters, long train rides, etc. It probably took an entire day. He didn’t even get lunch after struggling to get there from a war zone. (He probably arrived hungry thinking they would provide lunch after he came that great distance. Is that any way to treat a guest?).

Fifth, we SIGNED a commitment in 1994 - the “Budapest Memorandum” y along with the UK, Northern Ireland and Russia! Why isn’t anyone talking about this??

In 1994 Ukraine ONLY agreed to hand over their HUGE STASH of nuclear weapons to Russia 'in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded.' And to be protected if such an invasion occurred.

***If Ukrainian had KEPT those nuclear warheads, and they should have, Russia would never have dared to invade, EVER!•••

Ukraine was the ONLY country that honored this agreement.

Obviously, Russia, the invader, did NOT keep the commitment, but the United States MUST.

Perhaps Trump, being the non reader, poor student he was, doesn’t know about this commitment. But no wonder Zelensky doesn’t trust Russia to keep another agreement! Who should? Like Trump, Putin LIES and CHEATS and has repeatedly shown HIS WORD IS NOT GOOD!

Russia broke the agreement so they have NO bargaining power. This is what should happen:

1. Russia should return ALL of Ukraine’s land.

2. Russia should return ALL of the stockpile of nuclear warheads Ukraine gave Russia since they broke the agreement or better replace with new.

3. Russia should pay to rebuild Ukraine.

4. No other country is asking to be reimbursed. The United States did NOT give Ukraine $350 billion. That is another Trump LIE. We gave them ILD war equipment & we bough new to replace them.

5. The United States should not get anything from Ukraine - NO MINERALS. The United States did nothing when Russia took Crimea & Georgia. If they had, this total devastation & loss of lives would not have occurred. The United States, UK , N. Ireland did not come to Ukraine’s rescue when Russia invaded. All four countries broke the agreement.

6. Since neither the U.S., UK, N.Ireland nor Russia held to the agreement, Ukraine SHOULD be allowed to join NATO. They earned it. That will assure no future invasions of their county.

By agreeing to these terms along with staying out of our elections, Putin is getting off lightly because Putin is now a war criminal and should really be sentenced to death. He did irreparable harm to babies, raping women, kidnapping children, bombing hospitals, etc. Not to mention the devastation of people’s homes, the infrastructure, loss of lives, the emotional and physical trauma, etc.

DON’T GIVE IN! The ball is in your court. Russia is sweating.

Sincerely,

A very SHOCKED, ASHAMED and HORRIFIED American citizen. I apologize, respect and support you. We all agree, we would prefer it if you were our President!

“This Memorandum will become applicable upon signature. Signed in four copies having an equal validity in the Ukrainian, English, and Russian languages.”

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances

A Harvard Professor of law, Timothy Snyder made some astute comments. You might like to interview him as he is an expert on Ukraine.

On the PBS Hour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QBNJj_8gM

Professor Timothy Snyder on his Substack video (provided links for donating to Ukrainian organizations):

https://snyder.substack.com/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office

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T L Mills's avatar

I'm sorry, but until the Dems are a majority in the House...trying to impeach the orange arsehole is not only useless, but a waste of time and effort which could be directed at other, perhaps more productive, issues. As long as Trump and his MAGAs have their tentacles in every branch and crevice of government--what's left of it--and own the entire legislative branch, trying to impeach Trump simply will not fly.

Impeachment was tried TWICE already and even though we held the House at that point, drump still slithered out of it thanks to McConnell.

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Marlo's avatar

I disagree! NOW is the time. Many Republicans are disgusted with Trump after Friday’s shameful display of treason.

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Elizabeth Wallace's avatar

But they are afraid of the orange blob because they will attack their families. The republicans won’t band together and do the right thing😡

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T L Mills's avatar

Well, don't you remember how disgusted the Repubbies were--even McConnell--after January 6? By the time the impeachment charges were argued, even McConnell had reconsidered and Trump was able to slither away. yes, many Republicans are appalled...but I doubt their dismay and disgust would last beyond considerations of Trump's vindictiveness. The Republicans are invertebrates and even if they are currently primed for an impeachment trial...I don't think it would last long enough to follow through.

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Max's avatar

Totally agree. There needs to be a ground swell grass roots movement to impeach. 100 million or more of us should be calling our representatives and senators as you suggest and demand it.

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Max's avatar

They may be invertebrates, but 100 million plus of us are not. The definition of treason is betraying one's country. It they are not guilty of treason, then we are all not living in the same country.

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Kathy Clark's avatar

I think it only takes 13 million to change course.

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SR B's avatar

They will all fall in line again before you can turn around twice.

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

Marlo, the ones in my world think that either ffpotus and ccf were "strong" or that ffpotus is way, way smarter than he is portraying. SMH.

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Marlo's avatar

Then:

• Why is he letting others demolish our agencies that are “watchdogs” so he or others can’t be held accountable for corruption?

• Why is he removing ALREADY drastically cut IRS personnel at TAX season (dumb) - people that brought in $$$$$$$$ BILLIONS from tax fraud. I guess Trump doesn’t want the IRS snooping in his taxes…

• Why doesn’t he have the wealthy & corporations pay their fair share in taxes instead of giving them $4.5 trillion cuts and then scramble to cut needed areas from the poor and perhaps suddenly unemployed?

• Why isn’t Trump FOLLOWING the LAW in doing the cuts? It is ILLEGAL for him to fire Inspector Generals, cut/dismantle agencies Congress created and approved funding for. There is a LAWFUL PROCESS! That is the heart of democracy!

Trump is IGNORING that process. He is IGNORING COURT ORDERS to unfreeze the freeze in spending the allocated funds already approved by Congress. How is THAT “smart.” That is a DICTATORSHIP!

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T L Mills's avatar

Sigh. Don't they realize trump has never ever "hid his light under a bushel"? That he is simply incapable of such subtlety. He wears his brags and "accomplishments" on his sleeve.

I'll admit it isn't always easy to see where he is being himself and where he is acting on orders and/or talking points from Moscow...but if you look carefully to see where Trump sees immediate advantage for himself--or a chance to avenge a grievance--you can usually figure out where he's going to go. He cannot for the life of him plan for his own long-range benefit--he's too impulsive. But he certainly can follow the orders of someone who does have the ability plan long range. Unfortunately.

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Gigi's avatar

And the election is next year. 2026. Blue wave or else 💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙it’s going to be harder than ever to have a free and fair election.

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T L Mills's avatar

Yes and the Repubbies are already hard at work trying to get voter suppression laws enacted (SAVE Act, anybody!??) and otherwise diddling with the people in charge of the processes. I don't think it is going to be enough to simply turn out the vote this time--it's going to require Dem strength of character to demand count challenges and recounts--just as the Repubbies have done for the last several elections. We also need to resist the Republican rush to declare winners when the votes have been only half counted. We must be ready to demand investigations and then there will be tussles to pry losers out of their offices if they insist that they won. Trump has set some very ugly precedents for his followers. I say be prepared for battle, comes election season 2026.

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