CANCER: Remove this one

After watching days of the impeachment hearings, I still had questions. Recently, I discovered a book entitled “Impeach,” written by a professor of law and former solicitor general, Neal Katyal, which succinctly explains the situation, including a comparison with prior impeachments. For those who also have questions about the case, I highly recommend it.

Basically, it is up to we the people, to protect and preserve our democracy. How well this happens depends on our love of and concern for, the United States of America, not for the political party we claim.

The integrity of our elections has been undermined and our national security made vulnerable to blackmail, by Trump’s actions, by confirmation by his own words and those of his staff.

He has obstructed justice into the investigations of his conduct, adopted an unconstitutional view of executive power, defied valid subpoenas, further obstructing, then promised to do it all again and indeed IS doing it again. Asking a foreign power to interfere in our elections should not be tolerated by a single citizen of our great country. A president is never to put his own interests above the best interests of the country. And yet he refuses to allow Ukraine the Javelin missiles it needs, not for a few days but for months. In exchange for them investigating his political rival, Biden.

As John Dean, president Nixon’s counsel, said during Watergate, “There is a cancer on the presidency, and cancers, if not removed, only grow.”

I trust that folks will educate themselves, contact their elected officials and support the removal of the current cancer from our White House.

BARB CRUMPACKER

Coeur d’Alene