This is a republication of a petition I posted on Change.org in January of 2017. With New Challenges to our Democracy and the evolution of Russiagate, it is necessary that I transfer an updated version of that petition to the DailyKos; I will rename it and modify its objective. I will add this post back to the original petition as an update see reference number 11.
A president cannot pardon someone (or himself) to obstruct justice and would be prosecuted for such. By pardoning him or herself, it would be the equivalent of a Judge presiding over his/her own prosecution. Trump will answer for his crimes against the constitution he swore to uphold and his disregard for the populist. Trump and the Republicans’ have proven to be enemies of progressive legislation they were and are still resolved to sabotage and repeal the ACA Act/Obamacare, to overturn Roe V Wade, plunder social safety nets, education, the EPA, every institution designed to protect the average citizen and our environment etc…. If Trump’s crimes amount to treason (as we do not know the full Scope of Robert Muller’s discovery in relation to Trumps business dealings at home and abroad), Trump's potential treachery, and for many other grievous reasons, we demand that he be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (treason is universally recognized as punishable by death) Donald Trump, his’ family, members’ of the GOP, Trump’s Oval Office staff and anyone else who aided and abetted should be subject to the same fate (Chris Cilliza,"Can President Trump pardon himself?," CNN Politics, July 24, 2017).
Our Republic is in great peril. We are in a de facto second Cold War being waged via social media, spreading propaganda and misinformation; Russia has succeeded in its primary goal, undermining Americans’ faith in our Democratic system and has shown the ability to sway the pendulum of public opinion not just to undercut Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president, there are ramifications far beyond that, e.g. as of March of 2017 the “FBI counterintelligence were probing whether far-right sites like Breitbart News and Infowars had coordinated with Russian botnets to blitz social media with anti-Clinton stories, mixing fact and fiction when Trump was doing poorly in the campaign1.”
FBI and CIA officials believe there are ongoing information wars against global democracy. James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence testified to congress on May 8, 2017, “If there has ever been a clarion call for vigilance and action against a threat to the very foundation of our Democratic political system, this episode is it.” Vladamir Putin alleges that Hillary Clinton (in 2011) during her tenure as Secretary of State spearheaded an influence operation against him which resulted in protest in more than 70 cities across Russia potentially subverting his control over the Kremlin.
Putin’s and the Right Wing Extremist smear campaign against Hillary Clinton has continued unmitigated. Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s went viral in late August. It was given more fuel when she fainted from dehydration and pneumonia at a September 11 event in New York City. Among other propaganda; “…. Clinton murdered a DNC staffer. Just before Election Day, a story took off alleging that Clinton and her aides ran a pedophile ring in the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor.” Russian agents’ buy “ads on Facebook to target specific populations…. Four of the top five Google search results the day the U.S. released a report on the 2016 operation” (on January 7, 2017) “were links to Russia’s TV propaganda arm RT.” In three states that Trump was able to eek out “Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. In each they found what they believe is evidence that key swing voters were being drawn to fake news stories and anti-Clinton post online. #pizzagate, for example, were disproportionately higher in swing districts and not in districts likely to vote for Trump. Facebook has admitted to being thoroughly compromised by Russian propaganda. With its consolidation with Instagram 150 million Americans’ were exposed to Russia’s social media propaganda campaign. We call on congress to subpoena data from Facebook that could help divulge links between Russia and the Trump campaign as a matter of violations of campaign finance laws, now at 2 billion followers worldwide, it is the perfect breeding ground for disseminating misinformation2 & 3.
1. Massimo Calabresi, “Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America” Time Updated May18, 2017 (visited 7/24/17): http://time.com/4783932/inside-russia-social-media-war-america/
2. Jeremy B White, “Facebook under fire as it reveals 150m Americans saw Russian election propaganda: I don’t think you get it… What we’re talking about is the beginning of cyber warfare’” www.independent.co.uk/news/, November 1, 2017: www.independent.co.uk/.…
3. Rob Price, “Facebook Admits That Social Media Can Be Bad For You” Business Insider, December 15, 2017: www.businessinsider.com/….
Americans’, we cannot be dissuaded by the likes of Vladamir Putin and the nefarious GOP. We the people chose, and insist, Ms. Clinton be declared the legitimate president; (I am petitioning on behalf of the electorate, citizenry, populous and the international community that hoped to see Hillary Clinton ascend to the presidency). we demand an equitable result to the 2016 Presidential Election. Through insidious means, the GOP has taken over the Oval Office; there was voter suppression in North Carolina, Florida and Wisconsin4, and millions of Democratic votes were thrown out through faulty interstate cross checking5 & 6. Hillary lost Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan by 77,744 votes combined, versus a modest estimate of 9 million primarily Democratic ballots either suppressed or purged, enough to hand over the presidency to Ms. Clinton and the most heinous of all acts by Trump’s campaign which is more glaring by the day are their potential aiding and abetting with a foreign adversary to undermine our electoral system7. Our Republic must stand against the attempted Oligarchy for the rich that the current administration is attempting to establish. No foreign adversary will gain an advantage over our government. The United States of America, our union, and that alone will determine the future of this great country8.
4. Alice Miranda Ollstein, "Republicans were wildly successful at suppressing voters in 2016" ThinkProgress, November 15, 2016: https://thinkprogress.org/2016-a-case-study-in-voter-suppression-258b5f90ddcd
5. Ben Gelblum, “Ethnic Votes Stolen in Crucial States Help Fix US Election For Trump
Reveals Greg Palast” Greg Palast Journalism and Film, November 16, 2016: http://www.gregpalast.com/ethnic-votes-stolen-crucial-states-help-fix-us-election-trump-reveals-greg-palast/
6. Thom Hartmann, Richard Greene, “The Massive Election-Rigging Scandal the Media Ignored Republicans denied 7 million their right to vote, and no one seems to care.” Alternet, January 6, 2017: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/massive-election-rigging-scandal-media-has-categorically-ignored
7. Zack Beauchamp, "Legal experts say Donald Trump Jr has just confessed to a federal crime" Vox, updated July 11, 2017 (Visited July 13, 2017): https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/10/15950590/donald-trump-jr-new-york-times-illegal
8. David Morris, "The Next President Will Likely Appoint 4 Supreme Court Justices: Which President Do You Want Picking Them?" Alternet July 27, 2016: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/next-president-likely-appoint-4-supreme-court-justices
The Electoral College failed to live up to the expectations of the Founding Father’s of our nation. As in the case of MARKS VS. STINSON•19 F.3d 873, 889 (3d Cir. 1994), we ask that the Electoral College ballots be voided as the Absentee votes were nullified by Philadelphia’s Appellate Court since Stinson won as a result of hundreds of illegal Absentee applications being enumerated; subsequently, the victor of the general election, Bruce Marks, was declared the winner (in the same vein) we must, again, revert to the general election tally for unprecedented reasons (a litany of high crimes, undermining our voting system and the possible compromise of America’s national security etc...); Hillary Clinton won by nearly 3 million popular votes in spite of the deplorable actions of the GOP. It should be noted that William Stinson was already certified into the Senate (as Trump has been inaugurated) nevertheless, Philadelphia's Appellate court removed Stinson and replaced him by his Republican rival Bruce Marks. Likewise, if Trump’s business dealings are tantamount to treason (if one commits treason you give up your rights of Citizenry, and no non-citizen can be president according to our constitution) all of his appointees must be removed and replaced by Hillary and her choice of cabinet members for the grievous and aforementioned reasons, in the meantime, we would demand that Nancy Pelosi perform in Hillary’s stead if she is not immediately prepared to step in.
Our position is that Trump is already guilty of high crimes by aiding and abetting Russia in plain sight of the American people9. The Supreme Court has entered into the electoral process twice in 2000, and 1876. Foreign influence has already been confirmed10, the "most deadly adversaries of republican government" ... are "chiefly from the desire in foreign powers" (in this instance Russia) "to gain an improper ascendant in our councils," Federalist No 68. Those are the words of the Founding Fathers’ and part of the reason the Electoral College was formed, but failed to serve its purpose.
9. David Corn, "We already know Trump Betrayed America .... Collusion?Maybe. Active Enabling, Definitely" Mother Jones, July/August Issue: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/trump-putin-russia-scandal-guilty/
10. Steve Benen, "FBI and CIA agree: Russia’s operation intended to help Trump win" MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show / The MaddowBlog December 16, 2016: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/fbi-and-cia-agree-russias-operation-intended-help-trump-win
11. 32. Ruldolph Pongnon, “The Great Betrayal, Black Millenials’, Make Hillary Clinton President in 2020” Updated May 1, 2018: https://www.change.org/p/great-betrayal-black-millenials-american-patriots-make-ms-clinton-president-in-2020
If Trump is convicted of treason after being impeached, we ask for the following injunctions in order to prevent an inordinate burden on the presidential transition process. Hillary Clinton is allowed to start selecting members of her cabinet if the specific charge of treason is being litigated. Should this escalate to the Supreme Court, we ask that Trump's appointee (Neil Gorsuch) be recused from ruling on this matter.
Also, we implore the court to stipulate that if Hillary Clinton accepts the presidency, she can only do so with a pledge not to grant a pardon to Mr. Donald J. Trump or any of his co-conspirators whether family or the GOP. If you are a lawyer and share my and the American people's outrage, please post a message to this update and I will get in contact with you.
Sincerely
An American Patriot
Ruldolph Pongnon CEO and Head Trainer
Rising Storm Boxing and General Fitness Inc.
And Activist, Holisticism Action Network, https://actionnetwork.org/groups/holisticism?hash=1bea3349fbbdbe0e7fa2adb7b4a7a201, thanks.