Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
The world is digesting what we’ve been hearing, seeing, and reading since yesterday’s release of the redacted affidavit that led to retrieval of the nation’s classified information from Mar-a-Lago.
Who knew we could still be shocked by anything Mr. Trump did, does, will do? But we are.
From historian Heather Cox Richardson…
“Trump is in serious trouble…and so are the rest of us. This stolen and mishandled classified intelligence compromises our security. The best-case scenario is that it was never seen by anyone who knew what they were looking at. Even that would mean that our allies have every reason to be leery about sharing information with us again.
But that’s the best-case scenario. We have to wonder, who else now knows the secrets designed to keep Americans safe? Multiple news stories during Trump’s presidency noted that even then, Mar-a-Lago was notoriously insecure. And, unthinkable though it should be but sadly is not, what if secret documents have already been given or sold into the hands of foreign actors whose interests conflict with ours?
I have been writing today about Trump’s first impeachment and the hearings where Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman, immigrants all, who served our nation faithfully and fully, risked—and ultimately lost—their jobs to warn us that Trump was willing to compromise our national security for his own interests.
“He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again,” House impeachment manager Adam Schiff warned the Senate.
“You can’t trust [Trump] to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can’t. He will not change and you know it.” Schiff begged them to say “enough.”
But they would not, and they did not, and here we are.”
You are the ‘they.’ Your complicity led us to this day. You did not heed witness testimony that you no doubt knew in your hearts was true. Yet you still have your jobs. And they do not.
So thanks for all that. You served the country well.
