Dear Friends,
It seems to me, perhaps it would be a good idea, from now on, that every President has to face a special prosecutor, with unlimited powers, the entire time he or she is President? You have to admit, no President in the history of this country has been under such scrutiny, even starting retroactively back to his campaign, as this President, so perhaps every president from now on should. There can be no actual scandals in the Trump administration, everyone is under a magnifying glass, the watchers being people who loathe Trump. As such, it has forced him to stay legal in everything he does, unlike past Presidents who never had to face any scrutiny whatsoever, and so engaged in extremely dangerous expeditions, endangering our Constitutional republic and safety in the process.
Such strange adventures like Fast and Furious, where the government was forcing gun dealers, along the Mexican boarder, to sell firearms to known drug gang straw buyers, then blaming the gun dealers along the boarder for fueling the violence by supplying the weapons. This worked fine until Brian Terry was shot and killed with a Fast and Furious weapon. The information came out that it was the government that was sending the weapons through straw buyers into Mexico, where, presumably, the US government could track their usage in crime by the serial numbers of recovered weapons. That was the time Eric Holder was convicted of lying under oath to Congress and was reprimanded. If such a thing happened today Mueller would be all over it. Cohen is going to jail for a far less egregious crime.
With the rabid way Mueller attacked the “Stormy Daniels Affair,” can you imagine how he would have gone after Trump, for having sexual relations with that woman, miss Lewinsky, while in office not years before, then lying about it? Such scandals are impossible in the Trump administration. I, for one, would like to see future administrations held to such standards. Heavens knows past administrations could not have withstood such examination. Rather than politically favored Presidents having their personal peccadilloes protected, everyone in that position should equally face the scrutiny of a special prosecutor, controlled by the opposite political faction. I wonder how Obama would have stood up under a Mueller, greeting him in office on the first day, rather than a Nobel Prize?
Wouldn’t it be nice, to have administrations in the future, that are held to the same standard as the Trump administration? The transition would be difficult at first, but thereafter, having a special prosecutor appointed and run by the opposition would become a matter of course. You could go to bed at night, not having to worry if your President is engaged in some nefarious adventure to undermine our Constitution, or break the law. That would be nice, but it certainly would not be the case if only Trump faces a special prosecutor on day one. Every President from now on should. Moreover, it should not be mandatory, but a test of the character of the incoming President. Those who deny one would prove, by doing so, they have bad intent and should face immediate justified impeachment.
If the special prosecutor as he stands now, continues his investigation up to and past the 2020 election, Trump would be wise to push the permanent special prosecutor as an enduring check, against any executive in the future gone rogue. Such an idea would immediately get populist support especially if promoted by a sitting executive! One thing we know about the Trump administration, is that it is scandal free, because if anyone steps out of line, even to tie his shoe, he will go immediately to jail, and every administration from here on out should as well. I welcome the breath of a scandal free administration. Perhaps Trump would have been a scoundrel or a saint, but now he is forced to be a saint… shouldn’t every President?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
