Trump incited an armed mob against our country | Letter to the editor

Posted 1/25/21

Donald Trump is a failed would be dictator who attempted to overthrow the dually elected president of the United States. 

After losing the election for president of the United States of …

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Trump incited an armed mob against our country | Letter to the editor

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Donald Trump is a failed would be dictator who attempted to overthrow the dually elected president of the United States. 

After losing the election for president of the United States of America, Donald Trump claim election fraud. His legal teams filed over 60 legal challenges, but they were unable to produce in court any evidence of massive voter fraud.  Donald Trump spent months publicly delegitimizing the election system, and then de-legitimized the courts. 

Having failed in the courts, Donald Trump crossed a clear red line and engaged in three known illegal attempts to overthrow the election:

He attempted to coerce the Georgia Secretary of State to change the vote count.

He attempted to coerce the vice president to illegally stop the certification of the electoral votes.

He incited an armed mob, he had been priming for months, to invade the capital to stop the certification of the electoral votes.

If Donald Trump had succeeded, we would have lost our republic. These crimes can not go unpunished without dramatically increasing the risk of future assaults on our freedom. Donald Trump needs to be impeached, convicted, indicted and sent to prison. Anything less will provide incentives to future would be dictators. This must never happen again.

Robert Landry
PORT TOWNSEND