Friend --
J Street was the first major Jewish organization to say that President Trump was unfit to be president.
Our statement, released on March 16, 2016 read:
Nothing in the campaign to date gives us any confidence that Donald Trump, as Commander-in-Chief, would make rational and principled judgments on the foreign policy issues of consequence to us or that he would act in accordance with the core principles that define this country as a democracy.
As these fears were borne out each day after his election, we dedicated ourselves to electing a House that would hold him accountable.
Together, we succeeded. We elected a House that has passed measures to prevent Trump from going to war with Iran. They’ve passed historic legislation pushing back on his reckless Mideast policies. And today, they’ve taken the ultimate step to hold him accountable for undermining our democracy.
Already, pro-Trump groups have started running ads against many of our endorsees for merely supporting the impeachment inquiry. In 2020, we will need to protect our friends in the House who’ve done the right thing -- from standing up to Trump’s disastrous Mideast policies to holding him accountable for his corruption.
Chip in to help us protect every one of our endorsees who has defended our democracy and our values by holding Trump accountable.
The Senate, unfortunately, has been an entirely different story. Under Mitch McConnell, it has buried legislation that would restrain Trump’s war powers. It has confirmed the president’s unqualified and outright dangerous nominees. It has stood by as Trump has undermined international law and enacted abhorrently cruel anti-immigrant policies. And now, McConnell is making it clear he will not give a fair hearing to overwhelming evidence of the president’s crimes.
Whatever the outcome of the Senate trial, it has become clear that McConnell is as morally unfit as President Trump to remain in office. He is as -- if not more -- responsible for undermining our democracy and enabling the horrific policies of the past three years.
At J Street, we are going to make it our mission over the coming year to transform the Senate -- just as we transformed the House. That starts with taking McConnell’s gavel -- and his seat.
Help defend our champions in the House and defeat Trump’s enablers in the Senate in 2020.
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Thank you for standing with us in the fight for peace and democracy.
-Ben Shnider
Vice President for Political Affairs and Strategy, J Street
