Friend --
I've been in the Senate for 45 years, and I've never seen our country in such collective pain.
While in the throes of a pandemic that's taken the lives of over 100,000
Americans, we are also experiencing a reckoning of this nation's epidemic of
police brutality against its Black citizens in particular. Please click here to see my full statement
on the Senate floor yesterday concerning the killing of George Floyd.
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In the past 45 years, I've served alongside eight presidents. And in the midst
of so much trauma, I've never seen a president less capable of or interested in
healing and uniting this country. President Trump has spent the past week sowing
discord on Twitter and on television. He has threatened state-sanctioned
violence against peaceful protesters and has also called them "thugs."
We are in desperate need of a consoler-in-chief -- something every other
president I've served with, Democrat and Republican, has been called to and
capable of at some point in their presidencies -- and President Trump only knows
how to be an instigator-in-chief. Here's something I never imagined I would say:
He's president of this country in name only.
Fortunately, our most recent past president is stepping in to fill this void of
leadership when we need it most. Earlier this week, President Obama urged Americans to
take our anger today and turn it into lasting change tomorrow.
To quote President Obama, "It is a time to meet anguish with action." Visit this
toolkit put together by the Obama Foundation to take action today.
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We all must engage. We all must act.
Thank you and sincerely,
Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator
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