The litany of Trump's sins would fill a dark hymnal. Hate crimes are up dramatically, in no small part because, to paraphrase Andrew Gillum, Trump may not be a racist, but racists and anti-semites believe he is a racist. He has undercut foundations of our democracy, in his mad dash to obstruct the Mueller investigation. Corruption and waste are rampant. International alliances are frayed as he relentlessly demeans our allies. Children are in cages.
The first duty of the President is to protect us. Jamal Khashoggi, a legal US resident and contributor to the Washington Post, was lured to the Saudi embassy in Turkey, where he was brutally murdered. Any other president, at least one without financial ties to the Saudi regime, would have been outraged. Instead our President praised our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and attempted to deflect blame from the Crown Prince.
Bad enough, but Trump has gone further, trying to get another legal American resident killed and tortured, in exchange for Turkey backing off on its release of evidence against Saudi Arabia. Trump has requested that his aides find a way to extradite Fethullah Gulen to Turkey. Faced with this debasement of American values, members of the CIA were compelled to leak their conclusion that the Crown Prince ordered the murder of Khashoggi.
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