Dear Mr. Trump,

You’re in big trouble when even Fox News turns against you.

In light of Ambassador Taylor’s testimony, Fox News now says that you can no longer pretend that “nothing happened.” It did happen, almost exactly as the whistleblower said.

In light of Ambassador Taylor’s testimony, Fox News now say you’re wrong to denigrate him as a “radical.”

Remember, Ambassador Taylor served as an infantry officer with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He didn’t claim fake bone spurs to get out of service.

Remember, Ambassador Taylor is a well-respected career diplomat, working for both Democratic and Republican presidents.

Remember, you yourself appointed Ambassador Taylor his job as Acting Ambassador to Ukraine.

Remember, Ambassador Taylor carefully documented how you instructed our government to withhold military aid to Ukraine until Ukraine promised to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.

Remember, Ukraine is an ally who’s been fighting Russian aggression for years and for whom the military aid that Congress promised – and you withheld – was a matter of life and death.

It’s so sad that you don’t care about the lives of our allies and that you care more about appeasing Putin and making Russian aggression easier.

It’s exactly what you did in Syria, by pulling out of our military’s strategic location. You paved the way for further Russian encroachment in the Middle East, and recklessly allowed the escape of thousands of ISIS terrorists. So that’s what makes America “great” by your standards? It’s sickening.

Even Fox News is starting to realize how pathetic your White House really is.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

PS: I’m going to ask my followers to share on Facebook and all other social media and to keep sharing until we have removed by constitutional means this existential threat to our country.

Dear Mr. Trump,

Your acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, has admitted what we knew all along from the transcript of your telephone call with Ukraine’s president. You conditioned sending essential military aid to our ally, Ukraine – aid required by act of Congress, i.e., law – on Ukraine’s promise to dig up dirt for use in your political campaigns.

That is a quid pro quo, am abuse of power, a corrupt act if ever there was one, behavior adverse to the security interest of the United States, conduct that endangers the lives of the brave Ukrainians fighting Russian aggression.

You don’t get it, do you? The powers of the presidency are to be used in the public interest, not in your personal political interest.

There’s no reason for you to have fired our ambassador to Ukraine and to have supplanted the State Department officials trained in foreign diplomacy, requiring them to act through your personal attorney Giuliani, other than to serve your personal – rather than the country’s – interests.

And the common thread here, as always during your presidency, is that you are trying to help Russia and its criminal dictator, Putin, who is holding you over a barrel. Why else withdraw so precipitously from Syria – deserting the Kurds, who were our allies against ISIS – if not to leave room for Russia to dominate?

And then, on top of everything else, you stonewall Congress. As Lindsey Graham (R.S.C.) has said: “A president who doesn’t comply with Congressional requests for information is subject to impeachment.”

Remember that Fox News Wednesday finding that 51 percent of Americans wants you impeached and removed from office? That number will only continue to grow.

Impeachment can’t happen soon enough.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Criminal-in-the-White House:

It’s coming apart for you. Slowly but surely. People who work for you are jumping ship, little by little, but the trend is clear.

It’s coming apart for you. When your tax returns are examined, the country will see much more clearly how you have lied about so many things, including your sources of financing. We will see how you are greatly indebted to the Russians and the Saudis and how your foreign policy – if you want to call it that – is all about sucking up to your creditors.

It’s coming apart for you. Republicans that you put into the White House and who had first-hand knowledge were horrified at your conduct in the talk with Ukraine’s president. No wonder that the White House tried to hide even the whitewashed summary of the call on a secret server.

It’s coming apart for you. We now learn that your personal attorney, Giuliani, is likely involved in a scheme to violate campaign finance laws, funneling illegal Russian money through two Soviet-born friends, through a fake company, to Republican campaign coffers. That’s money laundering, something that I will bet your companies have done a lot of. That’s how companies with a history of bankruptcy continue to get loans.

It’s coming apart for you. The people whom you order not to testify are realizing that their loyalty to the truth and to democracy greatly outweighs any purported obligation to follow your obstructionist dictates.

You can keep lying all you want, because ultimately a vast majority of Americans will want you out of office. Even Fox News now says that a majority of Americans want you to be impeached. More will be persuaded shortly.

It’s coming apart for you.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

If any president ever deserved to impeached, you are he. That is fact.

You’ve admitted pressuring Ukraine to investigate your political rival, Joe Biden. You’ve asked for such an investigation publicly since your secret telephone conversation with Ukraine’s president was revealed. You contend such conduct is “perfect.”

You’ve now also asked China to begin a similar investigation.

You contend that it’s acceptable to invite foreign governments to interfere in our elections, and your spineless sycophants in Congress agree.

Now, you’re suggesting to your supporters that they should wage a bloody civil war in your defense.

People who love America and call you out for your abuse of power are not committing treason. You’re only an elected official, and you owed a duty to do your job properly. You took an oath to do so, but that was just another lie.

As far as you’re concerned, there’s no crime so great that you won’t commit it in an effort to steal the presidency again. You’ve welcomed Russia to continue working on behalf of your reelection

You like to throw around the term “disgrace” in your effort to paint yourself the villain. The term is apt, but you’ve misapplied it. You’re the disgrace. You’re a disgrace to the Office of the President, you’re a disgrace to our Constitution, you’re a disgrace to people who value our laws and the fairness of our election process.

Americans learn more and more every day about your perfidy. You can scream all you want about “witch hunt,” but facts are facts.

We, loyal Americans, deserve better and, either by impeachment or by the 2020 election, we will push you out.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

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Dear Mr. Trump,

Your baseless and dangerous allegations against the whistleblower are easily refuted.

Allegation that the complaint must’ve been drafted by a lawyer.

The CIA hires lawyers for “foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities.” https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/attorney.html  CIA explains that its employees will interact with various governmental entities, including the White House. It’s likely that the whistleblower was a lawyer or had legal training. Among other positions, attorneys can be CIA Staff Operation Officers, Ethics Attorneys, and Analysts who “identify and analyze key threats to the US.”

Allegation that the whistleblower must be a “political hack.”

The CIA tests its employees by, inter alia, “polygraph interview” and a “comprehensive background investigation.” No one joins the CIA to engage in politics. Loyal Americans join the CIA because they care about our country.

Allegation that the whistleblower spoke to “spies” in the White House.

The report shows that information was obtained from “multiple U.S. Government officials.” Report 1. Among these are “[m]ultiple White House officials with direct knowledge of the [Zelensyy] call.” Report 2. These officials “were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call.” Report 3.

These informants are not spies, but people you hired into the White House. They’re not planted there by an opposing political party, but people who respect our country and witnessed your abuse of presidential power.

Allegation that sequestering the transcript in “lock down” mode is routine.

The transcript was removed from where it would routinely have been kept, by order of White House lawyers, who were aware of “the gravity of what had transpired in the call.” Report 3. “The call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.” Report at 4.

So stop lying.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

I am so sorry that the House will now formally impeach you. This process should have begun months ago, when it became clear that you repeatedly obstructed justice in regard to the Mr. Mueller’s investigation. Had such an inquiry begun then, you might not have jeopardized our national security in your recent dealings with Ukraine.

Congress appropriated $293 million in military aid to Ukraine to help its fight against the Russia-led Putin-directed separatists waging war against it. For purely personal reasons – having nothing to do with our national security – you stopped that aid for months. How many Ukrainians – defending their homeland against Russia aggression – died because of your decision?

While the aid was unjustly withheld, you spoke to Ukrainian president. Zelensky and repeatedly asked for the “favor” that Ukraine investigate your political opponent, Joe Biden. Even a first-grader would understand the quid pro quo.

Your conduct, again and again, is a gross abuse of power. As Speaker Pelosi says, your conduct betrays the American people and your oath of office.

Unless you’re removed from office by impeachment, you’ll absolutely continue in this manner of criminality through the 2020 election – putting your political interests in re-election ahead of the sanctity of our democracy, ahead of our international commitments, ahead of our national security – by inviting foreign nations to work for you in digging up dirt against your opponents.

It’s time for all concerned Americans – Democrats, Republicans, independents, young, old, urban, suburban, rural, white, brown, and black – to demand your removal from office.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

PS – I ask all who read this letter to share it on their social media.

Dear Mr. Trump,

It looks like you’re trying as hard as you know how to get us into a war with Iran.

When you walked away from the nuclear accord with Iran – anything to spite President Obama – you had no plausible plan of what to do next. Imposing sanctions and talking like a tough guy might make you think you’re smart – after all, you call yourself a “stable genius” – but you had then and have now no realistic end game other than starting a military conflict.

You might blame Iran for provocative actions, but did you really expect that this religious dictatorship would, upon your breaching an international agreement, do whatever you wanted? Because you’re a “stable genius”?

I know you don’t believe in the solemnity of contracts. That’s why your companies always promised one thing and then cheated the small businesses that contracted with them.

But a country who negotiates at length with the United States and its allies and settles on an agreement that could delay for at least 10 years (under international monitoring) its accumulation of nuclear fuel for weapons doesn’t deserve to have that agreement shattered on your ignorant say-so. Now Iran is marching ahead and developing its nuclear weapons, thanks to you. Now Iran is showing that you seriously misjudged the effect on if of additional sanctions. You’ve only made them a worse enemy of the United States than they were before.

You expect Iran’s leaders to meet with you? That’s so absurd, and they’ve told you so. Why meet with someone as untrustworthy as you’ve proven to be?

You’ve pushed us toward war. Americans will die because of your stupidity, Mr. “Stable Genius.”

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

Dear Mr. Trump,

Really? You wanted to bring these Taliban terrorists to the United States and honor them with a stay at Camp David? And, you wanted to do this on the anniversary of 911, when the nation should instead mourn the horrible loss of life suffered at the hands of these terrorists in 2001?

This is poking a stick in the eye of all of us who mourn and remember.

It’s like inviting Hitler to come to the Warsaw Ghetto for a military parade.

It’s like inviting John Wilkes Booth to Abraham Lincoln’s funeral and giving him a seat of honor next to the casket.

It’s like inviting Charles Manson to a Sharon Tate memorial service.

It’s like telling Putin and the world that you trust Putin more than America’s own intelligence agencies – oh, wait a minute, you actually did that.

Aside from your gross, ignorant idea of this visit of terrorists to Camp David, you vastly overestimate your negotiating abilities. They are actually negotiating disabilities.

Look – your three summits with Kim produced nothing except that now the North Koreans are doing missile test almost every day. Now we’re no closer to a real deal than ever.

The fact is that you had no deal with the Taliban anyway. Keep them away from America. If you need to talk to them, send someone intelligent in your place, and have this meeting occur in a neutral zone, far from us.

If you need guidance about what to do, try to find someone on the White House staff with human decency.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger

 

Dear Golfer-In-Chief,

How nice that you find the time, so often, to spend our taxpayer dollars on your golf outings. It now appears that you’ve spent more than 270 days of your presidency on the golf course. Obviously, that makes America great again.

The truth is that we should be happy you spend so much time away from your job. The more time you spend on the golf course, the less harm you can do to Americans. Too bad that the harm you’ve already done when you’re not golfing is so substantial.

And consider the hypocrisy. You constantly decried President Obama for his golf outings, which were few and far between compared to yours.

You also said repeatedly on the campaign trail that, if elected, you wouldn’t have time to golf. Another big, fat lie, like all the other lies you tell.

Now, you pompously canceled your trip to Poland as a major hurricane approaches. But were you organizing our response? No! You were golfing! How does that protect all the citizens that will be flooded out, who will lose power, whose lives will be damaged, if not lost?

You’re shameless. The people in your cult who still support you want a king to tell them that they will be all right, but one who doesn’t actually need to work on their behalf, just talk and lie.

I call that a quadruple bogie, at best.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger