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September 21



As a law-abiding, hard-working, family-oriented, fair-minded, registered-Democrat, vote-for-character, father-of-two, small-business-owner, armed-forces-veteran, American citizen, I urge the Senate to go forth with the impeachment trial, as required by our Constitution.

The Senate must not cave into pressure to cut some sort of back-room deal that avoids presentation of evidence at trial and the defendant's defense. To do so would be yet another violation of hard-earned founding principles handed down by our fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers.

How much more erosion of these guiding principles that have served us so well can this country absorb before it becomes a water-logged, weighted-down, useless sponge?

It is the Senate's responsibility under the Constitution to hear the evidence and the defendant's defense, then to weigh the evidence. Senators in this case are no different than any other citizen called to serve on a jury.

Let this trial begin. America will be a stronger country regardless of the outcome. Interrupt justice as laid out by the Constitution and its very heart will be ripped from an already unsteady frame.

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