It is hard to assess the damage done to Americans over the last few decades as high crimes and misdemeanors committed by elected and appointed federal officials have been made light of, covered up, and overlooked. The crimes are too numerous to list here, but an examination of a few will suffice for an example.
Bill Clinton started an era of lowered morals. Being elected to the highest office of the United States, he set an example of dishonoring truth and integrity. Probably most noted for an indecent scandal and lying about it, he set precedence for immorality and dishonesty.
During George W. Bush’s presidency, he funneled America into the trap of embracing Islam as a religion of peace. Incredibly, this was after 9/11 when obedience to Islam led to an attack on U. S. soil that directly killed almost 3,000 people.
Barak Obama took America to a new low by promoting and directing everything anti-America. Defying America and the U. S. Constitution, he was able to send 400 million dollars of Americans’ cash on wooden pallets to America hating Iran. Under him, the country’s morals sank as homosexuality and transvestitism was promoted, and unborn babies continued to be attacked in the womb.
During Obama’s term of office, Hillary Clinton continued and expanded her husband’s lack of integrity. As Secretary of State, she allowed our embassy in Benghazi to be attacked resulting in the death of U. S. ambassador Chris Stevens and others. She committed treason by selling Russia twenty percent of America’s uranium.
What damage Obama left undone to America Joe Biden continued. Leaving our borders unprotected, the country was overrun with illegal aliens. Millions invaded our land, including unknown numbers of dangerous individuals and terrorists. Americans have suffered great loss, financially and physically, because of this invasion.
These criminal acts were committed by these and many others in the highest levels of government, along with many other crimes such as all the damage done surrounding Covid 19. As we approach the 250th anniversary celebration of the United States of America, let us not forget our pledge of allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Justice should be forthcoming for the injustice done on Americans by those who have thus far evaded prosecution and have been left unaccountable by the executive branch for their high crimes. Incalculable damage to our nation must not be ignored by the U. S. Justice Department.
Good list, but the timeline starts too late. Clinton didn’t invent unaccountability, he just benefited from a Congress that had already decided impeachment was a political inconvenience rather than a constitutional duty. That decision goes back further, through Nixon’s resignation short circuiting an actual trial, through decades of Congress handing away its own war powers and power of the purse to the executive branch it’s supposed to be checking.
Every name on this list is a symptom. The disease is a legislature that quit doing its job. The Framers didn’t design impeachment to require a national scandal and a media consensus, they designed it to be Congress’s routine tool for policing the executive. It hasn’t functioned that way in most of our lifetimes, under either party.
Ask yourself why the last several presidents, from both parties, all discovered the same thing: that Congress will grumble but won’t actually use the power it has. That’s not an accident. That’s a Congress that likes complaining more than it likes governing.
Thanks for the comment. Agreed. Probably even earlier. If only Congress would hold accountable those committing high crimes and misdemeanors. They would be busy!