Congressman Cartwright caved to the far left 'squad' that wants to re-do the 2016 election

To the Editor:

Regarding Matt Cartwright’s explanation of his vote supporting Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment attempt:

1. Presidents of the USA don’t give money to foreign powers expecting nothing in return. No president does. All presidents use foreign aid as a lever to get other countries to do what we want them to do. If that’s an impeachable offense, all presidents from Washington on must be impeached. You give money and then you ask for stuff in return. It’s called “politics.” Every member of Congress knows that.

2. All presidents exercise executive privilege when their closest advisors are subpoenaed by Congress. That is why we have a judicial branch of government. The established process when Congress and the executive branch disagree is to take it to the courts. Cartwright-Pelosi now propose a better method is to impeach the President and have the Senate try him if they don’t get what they want. That’s called “a very bad precedent.”

3. Are all Democrats political rivals of President Trump? Does that mean that he cannot investigate anybody who’s a Democrat for breaking the law? What happened to “nobody is above the law"? There are legitimate reasons to question if Hunter Biden broke the law when he got a high-paying job at a corrupt Ukrainian gas company because his last name is Biden. There were legitimate reasons for Trump to question whether Ukrainian President Zelensky is serious about attacking corruption. That’s called “being prudent.”

4. Quid pro quo in Latin means “this for that.” Joe Biden is not above the law. “Fire the prosecutor who is investigating the company my son is a director of, and you’ll get $1.5 billion loan guarantee from the USA. Don’t fire him, you get nothing. You got 6 hours. Son of a b...... They fired the prosecutor.” That’s what Joe Biden said: anybody can see and hear on the internet. This for that. You impeached Trump for what Biden did. That’s called hypocrisy.

5. From where I sit, the facts are Congressman Cartwright caved to Pelosi and the far left “squad” that want to re-do the 2016 election and nullify my vote and those of 63 million other Americans, 11 months before the next election based on crimes that are not even in the Constitution. That’s called a “gross abuse of political power.”

Regis Hanna

Milford