Mike Thinks: Ralph Nader to President Trump: Making America Dread Again!

With the beginning of impeachment hearings starting in the United States Senate, President Trump must be feeling the pressure. The trial is yet another example of the downward spiral which President Trump is leading us down. Citizens should be worried about the leader who has the power and sits in the White House. Where have we come from? Below, Iconic Activist Ralph Nader writes President Trump a letter.

Ralph Nader recently wrote President Trump a letter (shown below):

Trump: Making America Dread Again!

January 14, 2019

President Donald Trump

White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Trump:

The disabling and dismantling of the federal health and safety agencies under your cruel command has been leaving a trail of American fatalities, injuries, and property destruction without precedent even among past Republican Administrations. Your criminal negligence toward federal agencies like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is an impeachable offense. You are obsessed with corporate profits, obeisant to the corporate CEOs funding your campaigns. You deliberately selected corrupt henchmen to run these lifesaving agencies into the ground, under the guise of “deregulation.”

Constitutional law scholars declare that refusing to “faithfully execute laws” was seen by our Founders to be a major impeachable violation, sufficient for removal from office by the Senate. Your failure to appoint capable leaders, for required Senate confirmation, to head life-saving federal agencies is abhorrent and violates the appointments clause of the Constitution, Article II: Section 2, Clause 2.

Nonetheless, the media has not caught up with the full scope of your lawless commercial drive to “Make America Dread Again.”

Consider a recent address at Used Car Week 2019 in Las Vegas last November by Jerry Cox, a consultant to many businesses in trouble. Here is an excerpt from his remarks, elaborated in greater details in his forthcoming book, Killer Airbags:

Your government will do almost anything to protect the industry and nothing to protect you. At the start of 2020 – the final year of the first Trump Administration – NHTSA still had no Administrator. Instead, President Trump installed Takata’s lawyer [Steven Bradbury] as general counsel of the Transportation Department in 2017 and as Acting Deputy Secretary in 2019. Unbelievably, the guy who negotiated the sweetheart deals that allowed Takata executives to keep selling defective airbags and avoid criminal prosecution was put in charge of every government employee responsible for enforcing auto safety laws.

Shame and guilt on you, Donald Trump! You were willing to start an undeclared war with Iran last week, had their missile attack taken one American soldier’s life, but when American lives are threatened by crony capitalism, you do nothing. It is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s duty to save American lives on the highways from vehicle design and construction defects, yet under you the agency becomes even more toothless. You are leaving tens of millions of American motorists defenseless. Some will lose their lives if more Takata airbags disintegrate and hurl lethal shrapnel into their bodies. American drivers and passengers must receive protection by your Administration.

Will you stop your time-wasting 24/7 tweeting, and your prevaricatory assaults on the truth and reputations of innocent Americans? Will you pay attention to the Takata horrors and name a safety advocate to reinvigorate the enfeebled NHTSA? Will you start doing your job?

Sincerely,

Ralph Nader

Some critics of President Trump say that he has done irreparable damage to our nation. Time will tell. Last week, he managed to reduce restrictions on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which is the law in place requiring EIS -- Environmental Impact Statements -- before construction can begin on any infrastructure project in the United States. I wrote a blog post about the issue.

The take-home message is that if climate change (i.e., environmental impacts) are not considered at the beginning of a given infrastructure project, each American resident's insurance premium will be raised. Or -- alternately, the cost of not considering climate change will be passed onto the taxpayer through our government. What seems to benefit big business could eventually end up costing the average American consumer in the tax season. Stay tuned.

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