Jules Bernstein, MA
November 20, 2018 — Dear Signatories,

We have updated our petition with thirteen additional grounds for censure. Please see below:

66. Publicly praising Congressman Greg Gianforte (R.-Mont.), at a campaign rally, who pled guilty to an assault charge for having “body-slammed” a reporter for a British newspaper in 2017, and was sentenced by a court for having done so. Trump declared at the campaign rally that “any guy who can do a body slam...he’s my kind of guy.”

67. Threatening national security, as reported by the New York Times on October 25, 2018, by continuing to use his unsecured iPhones in talking with friends, when he has repeatedly been told by federal security agencies that both Russian and Chinese spies are listening in on his conversations.

68. Claiming that the press and media are responsible for the horrible terrorist sending of explosive devices to many Democratic leaders and others who have expressed criticism of him, including the Obamas, Clintons, Holders, Bidens, Robert DiNiro, John Brennan, George Soros, CNN, Maxine Waters, James Clapper, and others. The fact is that It was Trump whose extremist comments, beginning prior to the time that he ran for President, and thereafter, including, while he has served as President, that have encouraged the most extreme political opposition encouraging violence against his opponents, and he is encouraging extremist violent threats and actions such as we have seldom seen before in our country, but are seeing today.

69. Calling Democratic activist, Tom Steyer, “a crazed and stumbling lunatic,” in connection with his criticism of Trump in connection with Steyer’s unlawful and criminal receipt of a pipe-bomb from a terrorist supporter and admirer of Trump.

70. Calling Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gullin “a thief” during the course of Gullin’s campaign for Governor of Florida, without citing any evidence, and despite Trump’s position as President which precludes him from making allegations of criminality against anyone in violation of their right to due process of law and the presumption of innocence of any charges. Trump did so despite his declaration that he would tamp down his campaign rhetoric and accusations after a domestic terrorist sent pipe bombs to his Democratic opponents.

71. Proposing to issue an Executive Order that would take away American citizenship of people who were born in this country despite a provision in the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution which declares that “all persons born...in the United States are citizens.” Thus Trump proposes to amend the Constitution through issuing an Executive Order.

72. Appointing Matthew G. Whitaker as Acting Attorney General when Whitaker has never been confirmed by the Senate, which may result in violations of the “appointments” clause of the United States Constitution; and also because Whitaker publicly has expressed his opposition to the Mueller investigation of Trump and others, which disqualifies him under Justice Department ethics rules from supervising that investigation.

73. Making unsupported and irresponsible claims of fraud in the 2018 elections, including a claim that Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott should be declared elected in Florida as Governor and Senator immediately before a legally required recount is completed, because Trump has alleged that “many ballots are missing or forged,” and that “large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere.” He also tweeted that “An honest vote count [in Florida] is no longer possible.” Florida election officials have said they have not seen evidence of any election irregularities.

74. Insulting and demeaning three female African American reporters during the week of November 5, 2018, in response to their simply having asked Trump questions. As to CNN reporter Abby Phillips, he said, “You ask a lot of stupid questions.” Regarding April Ryan, a correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, he declared,” She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing!” And as to Yamiche Alcindor of the PBS News Hour and NBC News, who asked Trump about whether describing himself as a “Nationalist” stirred up white nationalists, Trump repeatedly declared Alcindor’s question to be “racist.”

75. Withdrawing the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta in violation of the First Amendment’s protections of freedom of the press, and barring Acosta from the White House grounds.

76. Failing while in France to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery where 2,290 American troops who fought and died in World War I are buried; and failing on Veterans Day in 2018 to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, which all presidents since at least John F. Kennedy have done to mark the solemn holiday.

77. Insulting and deriding revered retired Admiral William H. McRaven, who was a Navy Seal and Special Operations commander who oversaw the capture of Saddam Hussein and liquidation of Osama Ben Laden, as a “Hillary Clinton fan” and “Obama backer” on a November 18, 2018 television interview, adding that it “would have been nice if we got Osama Ben Laden a lot sooner...” McRaven had declared last year that Trump’s description of the news media as the “enemy of the people” was the greatest threat to democracy he had ever seen.

78. Insulting California Congressman Adam Schiff by tweeting about him on November 18, 2018, and vulgarly calling him “little Adam Schitt,” because Schiff had questioned Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General without having been confirmed by the Senate.

79. Issuing an order denying asylum seekers their legal right to seek asylum if they entered the United States illegally. This order was enjoined by a federal district court on November 19, 2018, as being contrary to law.

To see the full list of grounds for censure, please view our petition at https://censuredonaldtrump.com/ or on the change.org website.

If you no longer wish to be a signatory to this petition, please find the link below that explains how to remove your signature: 

https://help.change.org/s/article/ka10G000000kBymQAE/Remove-signature-from-petition?language=en_US

Thanks so much for your continued support in our joint effort. Please forward and share this petition with your networks using the hashtags #CensureDonaldTrump #Censure45.

If you have any questions, please email us at censure45@gmail.com.

Sincerely,
Jules Bernstein