10/05/2021
âDear Republicans:
You didnât object when you heard Donald Trump say he likes to grab women âby the pussy.â
You didnât object when he kicked the American media out of the Oval Office and handed two Russian spies classified data entrusted to him by one of our allies.
You didnât object when he likened our intelligence community to âNazis.â
You didnât object when he stood before the Memorial Wall of Stars at Langley and told lie after lie about himself and the election.
You didnât object while at the Helsinki Summit, he met behind closed doors with the Russian President.
You didnât object to him banning the American Press from covering that meeting.
You didnât object when he emerged from that meeting and sided with the Russian President over the findings of our own intelligence community.
You didnât object when the Trump campaign admitted to accepting Russian offers to help him defeat SecState Clinton.
You didnât object when he stood before the cameras and said; âRussia, if youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find 30k e-mails that are missing.â
You didnât object when the Russians responded that VERY DAY with stolen emails.
You didnât object when it was confirmed that the basis for the Trump Tower meeting was a total fabrication. That it had nothing to do with adopting Russian children, and everything to do with swinging the election.
You didnât object when it was revealed that Trump himself floated the cover story of adoptions from Russia.
You didnât object when it was confirmed that his campaign staff had met with Russian agents over 150 times, after claiming they had never met with them at all.
You didnât object when the Trump campaign declined to inform the FBI about the Russian advances.
You didnât object when Trumpâs campaign manager gave internal data on four key battleground states to agents working for Putin.
You sure as hell didnât object when those very same four battleground states miraculously shifted towards trump on Election Day.
You didnât object when Trump kicked his Attorney General out of the room and asked the FBI Director to let his National Security Advisor off the hook for lying about his contacts with Russian agents.
You didnât object when Trump fired that FBI Director for declining to let Flynn off the hook.
You didnât object when Special Counsel Robert Mueller said he couldnât establish a conspiracy, largely because so many of Trumpâs staffers lied during their interviews, and because Trump himself refused to submit to a live interview.
You didnât object when Special Counsel Mueller cited no fewer than ten instances of the president himself obstructing justice in his report: an impeachable offense.
You didnât object when it was revealed he cheated on his wife with a p**n star.
You didnât object when it was revealed that he paid off that p**n star to the tune of $130,000.00 to buy her silence just prior to the election, an illegal attempt to hide relevant facts from the electorate.
You didnât object when he withdrew the U.S. from the JCPOA, which was the first and ONLY treaty thatâs successfully kept Iranian nuclear ambitions in check.
You didnât object when he pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accords.
You didnât object when he scuttled the Obama administrationâs clean air and water standards.
You didnât object when he opened up vast tracts of protected wilderness to his friends in the oil and mining industries.
You didnât object to the myriad cases of violations of the emoluments clause.
You didnât object when he mocked a disabled man at one of his rallies.
You didnât object to the recently-discovered military stopovers at Trump properties in Scotland.
You didnât object when after mass shooting after mass shooting, he wouldnât lift a finger to protect even little school children from gun violence.
You didnât object when he started putting tariffs on everyone from China to Turkey, which have undeniably hurt millions of people around the world and shaken the stock markets.
You didnât object when he gave the corporate farming industry $26B in compensation for their losses due to his tariffs.
You didnât object when he channeled $3.6B in Pentagon appropriations to his wall on the Mexican border.
You didnât object when Trump called out against âIslamic terrorismâ on multiple occasions, but never once for terrorism by white nationalists.
You didnât object when he forcibly separated little children from their parents.
You didnât object when he confined those children to chain-link paddocks.
You didnât object when a whistleblower revealed the president had on multiple occasions said things that potentially undermined our nationâs safety and security.
You didnât object when his personal lawyer, his personal consultant, and his army of sycophants at Fox News have repeatedly and consistently lied about ALL of the above for three excruciatingly long years.
And now, you STILL donât object â even after he incited a deadly insurrection against our Capitol that left our democracy teetering on the brink of extinction.
So hereâs my question for you: What about any of the above do you believe entitles you to the right to call yourselves âpatriots?â In anything other than todayâs bizarro-world, you wouldnât even make the rank of American. When this nightmare ends, weâll remind you of just how patriotic you were during these days. Your karma is gonna sting.â
~ Bruce Lindner
