1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

The Constitution vests in Congress alone the power to declare war and to determine the Nation’s entry into armed conflict as a safeguard against unilateral executive war making. In his conduct as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump has abused the powers of the Presidency, asserting for himself the authority to initiate hostilities, escalate armed conflict, and commit the United States to acts of war without a declaration of war or authorization from Congress. In doing so, he and his close subordinate and agent Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, have substituted their own judgement for the laws of war, the Constitution, and Congress, undermining the separation of powers, imperiling our most fundamental principles of civil-military relations, and tarnishing the good standing and reputation of the United States in the community of nations. Donald J. Trump has repeatedly and intentionally threatened the Nation’s closest neighbors, allies, and friends with invasion, conquest, and annexation by military force, in violation of the constitutionally binding treaty obligations of the United States, and to the extraordinary detriment of national security and foreign relations, and constituting the “supreme international crime” of aggression. By and through his close subordinate and agent Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, Donald J. Trump has conducted extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean including the deliberate murder of shipwrecked survivors, an unambiguous illegal order prohibited under all circumstances, including against members of a combatant enemy force. By and through his close subordinate and agent Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, Donald J. Trump has executed unlawful and unilateral military actions in the sovereign countries of Iran and Venezuela, usurping Congress’ constitutionally-mandated power to declare war, disregarding statutory and constitutional limits on the use of military force, and reducing civilian control of the United States Armed Forces to the personal whims and preferences of a single individual. He has intentionally provoked international conflict through reckless escalation, threats of military invasion and the authorization of violent actions directed at the sovereign nations of Iran and Venezuela to include the unrestrained use of military action in civilian areas and the kidnapping of leaders in office, fully cognizant of the fact that should another country’s military bomb a facility or capital city within the United States of America, it would be a de facto declaration of war against the United States of America. He alienated our allies in pursuit of his unchecked aggression, telling allies to “get their own oil” upon their refusal to assist the President with regards to the abject strategic failure that is the ongoing illegal war on Iran. He has repeatedly threatened to violate U.S. and international law to prosecute this war, declaring his intent to commit war crimes by bombing civilian infrastructure, including desalinization plants. He has further declared that such violations of U.S. and international law are a tool of choice for his administration to implement regime change in foreign countries, saying on Fox News: “We have to do it again. We can do it again, too, nobody can stop us. There’s nobody that has the capability that we have” (6) and telling the New York Times “regime change is already complete” in Iran. In committing these repeated acts of aggression, Donald J. Trump and Peter B Hegseth have violated the criminal laws and international obligations of the United States. In committing the “supreme international crime” of aggression, Donald J. Trump has attempted to impose his tyranny over the rules-based international order, by and through his close subordinate and agent Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, in violation of their oath to the Constitution and betraying the trust of the American people. In all these things, Donald J. Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President, and in violation of his oath to the Constitution of the United States, and has committed the High Crime and Misdemeanor of lawless tyrant, to the manifest injury of the people and the security of the United States. In all these things, Peter B. Hegseth has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Secretary of Defense, and in violation of his oath to the Constitution of the United States, and has committed the High Crime and Misdemeanors of aiding and abetting tyranny, to the manifest injury of the people and the security of the United States. Wherefore Donald J. Trump and Peter B. Hegseth by such conduct, warrant impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.