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May 16, 2017

My THIRTEENTH Open Letter To Senator Pat Toomey

I'll be dropping this letter to Senator Pat Toomey in the mail today:
Dear Senator Toomey:

It's me, again. Your constituent who also writes for the local Pittsburgh-based political blog, "2 Political Junkies."

Senator Toomey, the events of the last few days demand attention.

As you may already know, yesterday the Washington Post reported that:
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
And:
Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States learned only through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence-gathering method, but he described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.
You'll remember, this was the meeting that US reporters were not allow to attend, though a Russian photographer was allowed to take photographs. This was the meeting also attended by Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the individual that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn met with and then lied about meeting, later triggering Flynn's firing.

This meeting took place a few days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the individual ultimately in charge of the investigation into the Trump Campaign's dealings with Russian Intelligence.

While this is not a question of legalities as Trump has the authority to declassify anything at will, were it anyone else in government, this is a question of fitness - fitness to be President, fitness to lead as commander in chief.

This is my question: Given the events of the last few days (the Comey firing and the disclosure of highly classified information to the Russians) do you a still have confidence in Donald J Trump's ability to be president and commander in chief? If not, what are your plans to deal with him? If you still do have confidence in his leadership abilities, considering the events of the past few days, what would it take for you to lose that confidence?

I await your response.
And I will be posting whatever response I get from him or his office.

Follow-up: 

4 comments:

Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™ said...

"President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials"

Debunked.

https://twitter.com/CrankyTRex/status/864232683441967105
Hey look it's one of those "officials familiar with the matter" again. Man those guys are right every time, aren't they?
Man just once could we get a real, named source for these incredible allegations?

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/864316837386956800
Seems to me that sharing such information with a "former official" would itself be a crime.

"what would it take for you to lose that confidence?"
Lobbying for the passage of the "No Fly No Buy" or "Manchin-Toomey background-check" bills

Dayvoe said...

How's this for a real live named source?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/864436162567471104

Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™ said...


I do not feel like defending that. Trump stepped in it. So I'll just share some progressive facts on the matter.

Impeach!!!!!1 Trump for his illegal leaking of classified information to the Russians!!!1!

Olbermann loses it over Trump’s leaking: ‘YOU are the leaker, you stupid, pea-brained, motherf*cking traitor’
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/olbermann-loses-it-over-trumps-leaking-you-are-the-leaker-you-stupid-pea-brained-motherfcking-traitor/

https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/864473410558152704
By definition, the President did not "leak" to Russia. He disclosed. Regardless of the wisdom of the disclosure, it is not a leak

Kim said...

The tragic part is that he and his supporters aren't intelligent enough and therefore don't understand how this is a very bad thing. Totally clueless.