To All Elected Republicans...

By NanceGreggs

Last year, you nominated, supported, and ultimately elected Donald Trump.

Throughout his campaign, Trump’s statements and behavior made it abundantly clear that he was unfit for the office of the presidency.

Had there been any doubt in your mind about his qualifications at that at the time, certainly you have come to know that now-president Trump is a liar, is ignorant of how the government operates, is using his office to enrich himself and his family, and whose incoherent “tweets” and public statements are demonstrative of mental instability.

Donald Trump’s closest advisors are under investigation for possible collusion with our enemy, Russia, in order to undermine our election process – an investigation that possibly could point to the involvement of Trump himself. And Trump’s response to these extremely serious allegations has been to call them a “hoax” based on “fake news”. He has done everything in his power to derail said investigations, and has fired those who have shown any determination to get to the facts of the matter.

Trump’s firing of James Comey – the man who was heading-up that investigation – is, for all intents and purposes, a de facto admission of guilt. Any president wrongly accused of colluding with our sworn enemy would be anxious to clear his name, and the names of his associates, by fully cooperating with any investigation into his and their behavior. Instead, this president has done everything possible to thwart any attempts to uncover the truth, and the underlying facts that support that truth.

The idea that Trump fired Comey due to the very things that Trump praised him for – i.e. the way Comey handled the HRC emails – is simply not credible. All politics aside, it defies common sense. It is an obvious attempt to waylay any investigation that would serve to prove the guilt of this president and his cohorts – which one could clearly interpret as an admission of guilt. And many of us see it as exactly that.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid – not of their party, but the aid of the democracy they have sworn to serve and protect. Now is the time for Republicans to stop defending “alternative facts”, and start acknowledging that the man they put in the Oval Office is deliberately shutting down any attempts to look into his and his colleagues’ ties to Russia, and their possible collusion with a foreign adversarial government to undermine our own government.

Now is the time for ALL citizens, regardless of party affiliation, to stand up for our country, for the rule of law that guides us, for the Constitution that defines us.

You are either on the side of what is morally and ethically right – or you are on the side of a man who is determined to abuse the power of his office in order to silence those who are raising legitimate questions about his involvement in collusion with our sworn enemy.

You are either on the side of your countrymen who want answers to that question, or you are on the side of a man who has repeatedly refused to answer that question.

You are either on the side of the citizens you have sworn to serve and protect, and whose interests you were elected to represent, or you are on the side of a man who is clearly determined to quash any facts that may point to his own guilt or that of his colleagues.

The ball is in your court – and it is a big fuckin’ ball. If you choose to defend your incompetent, proven liar of a president rather than stand up for your fellow citizens, that’s on you. If you persist in aiding and abetting a man who is taking every step possible to stop any investigations into his own actions and those of his colleagues, that’s on you.

The midterm elections will soon be upon us. Many of you will be out of office as a direct result of your defense of the Idiot-in-Chief, and your refusal to acknowledge his efforts to divert attention away from any facts that raise questions about his involvement in collusion with the Russians.

And don’t believe for a second that voters are unaware of your own collusion with the Russians, by virtue of your insistence that any investigation into your boy’s ties thereto should be shut down.

This isn’t over. Not by a long-shot. Your boy will be brought down – and you will be brought down with him.

Now is your last chance to stand up for your country. And all of us - Democrats and Republicans alike - will be watching whether you do or you don’t.