Dear Senator Murkowski,
I wrote you during impeachment when many of us knew it was only a matter of time before we'd get where we are today. We didn't know the specific crisis that would come, but we knew when it did, Trump would do terrible things. We've passed 100,000 COVID deaths. Trump's militant racist messages have contributed to the demonstrations and violence in the streets today.
While the Rule of Law is the basis of our democracy, Trump's destroying the Department of Justice and undermining so many other agencies. With COVID making mail-in elections necessary, Trump has put a political hack in control of the Post Office. You missed your chance to stop all this during impeachment.
In early May I wrote to request you find six other Republican Senators brave enough to block Trump's lawless presidency. Shortly after that the former top federal ethics officer Walter Shaup called on just four Senate Republicans to stop Trump.
There is little doubt in my mind that Trump plans to meddle with the election. His new, greater control of the Post Office makes it much easier to steal the election by delaying ballots being sent out and 'losing' ballots being returned. And he's already preparing for the possibility he might lose, by inciting militant revolt by claiming the Democrats are going to rig the election. That will be his claim if he loses.
You are one of 100 people who can stop this president before we have war in the streets. After November 3, your power will be diminished. The Senate has let Trump get away with one violation of the law, of norms, of decency after another. He knows the Senate won't hold him accountable - because it's done nothing to counter his violations. You've given him license to do crazier and crazier things.
My hope is that everything I'm saying here, you already know well and that you are working with Republican colleagues to stop the destruction of our nation that Trump is carrying out daily.
Thank you for listening. I desperately hope that soon I'll be thanking you for taking action.
Steven Aufrecht
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