Suggested statement for national Democratic leadership to give in connection with announcement of boycott of President-Elect Trump's inauguration
[Draft]
We, the leadership of the United States Democratic party, are announcing that we will boycott the inauguration of President-Elect Donald J. Trump on January 20th, 2025, and we call on all Democrats and others to do similarly.
We wish to explain to the American people and to the world why we are doing this.
The United States is mired in lies and polarized views about what is true and false, what is right and wrong.
This morass exists at the highest levels regarding the most significant matters and at lower levels and relative to less important matters.
The morass is worsening and it is unclear when it will get better.
The morass critically impairs the governance of the United States for the reasons that we will explain.
We believe that the most critical element of the morass regards whether or not the 2020 election was rigged and whether or not President-Elect Donald J. Trump did nothing wrong in connection with January 6th and whether or not Liz Cheney and the January 6th committee egregiously wronged President-Elect Trump.
Here the morass presents the near absolute that President-Elect Donald J. Trump four years later still says the 2020 election was rigged and says he absolutely did nothing wrong in connection with January 6th and Liz Cheney and the January 6th committee egregiously wronged President-Elect Trump.
Those on the other side say absolutely to the contrary of what President-Elect Trump says.
The foregoing morass makes for a critical impairment of the governance of the United States, and a resolution of same in needed in the form of a substantial consensus about which side is right.
President-Elect Trump has the biggest megaphone in the United State (and in the world) and he has used and will continue to use it to broadcast that he is right. Millions of Americans believe President-Elect Trump is right and President-Elect Trump's continued use of his megaphone has the potential capability to obliterate any contention that President-Elect Trump is wrong.
Besides believing President-Elect Trump is wrong, we submit to the American people and to the world either that President-Elect Trump knows he is wrong and continues to broadcast that he is right and not wrong, or that President-Elect Trump is not even aware that he is wrong.
Whether it is the case that President-Elect Trump knows he is wrong but continues to broadcast that he is right, or the case that he is not even aware that he is wrong, the risk is presented that President-Elect Trump will do wrong in other important circumstances.
We believe it is unacceptable in the governance of the United States to have a president who does wrong that he knows is wrong but says is right, or who does wrong unaware that he is doing wrong.
In either case, we call this an abuse of power, either knowing or unknowing by such a President of the United States, and we believe any Congress in office with such a President has a constitutional duty to do what it can to curtail such abuse of power.
We believe that most Americans at bottom believe that it is unacceptable in the governance of the United States to have a president who does wrong that he knows is wrong but says is right, or who does wrong unaware that he is doing wrong.
Further we think that much of the rest of the world would agree that it is not good for either the United States or the rest of the world for the United States to have a president who does wrong that he knows is wrong but he says is right, or who does wrong unaware that he is doing wrong.
Had the legal and constitutional framework of the United States properly worked, and had the January 6th criminal case against President-Elect Trump been completed before the 2024 election, the question of whether President-Elect Trump is right or wrong would have been resolved in the courts.
President-Elect Trump managed to avoid the proper working of the legal and constitutional framework of the United States, and there has not been a resolution of the question.
That he won the 2024 election does not resolve the question.
The purpose of our boycotting the inauguration of President-Elect Trump and calling on all Democrats and others to boycott the inauguration is to raise in the starkest way we can in the consciousness of the American people and of the world the need for a consensus on whether or not the 2020 election was rigged, whether or not President-Elect Trump did nothing wrong in connection with January 6th, and whether or not Liz Cheney and the January 6th committee egregiously wronged President-Elect Trump.
To be clear, we make one exception that outgoing President Biden attend the President-Elect's inauguration to emphasize that a peaceful transfer of power will take place and that our boycotting of the inauguration is for the new Congress to perform its constitutional guardian role to keep the new President from abusing his power.
We look forward to engaging on every level with those who believe President-Elect Trump is right (including with President-Elect Trump himself) or who are uncertain about whether or not President-Elect Trump is right, and that such engagement is the way to resolve whether President-Elect Trump is right or wrong.
As those of us who are in Congress proceed, along with our Republican colleagues, to undertake our constitutional governing responsibilities in the new Congress, we will press on our Republican colleagues the risk of further abuse of power by President-Elect Trump after he is sworn in office and press on them our constitutional obligations to keep, or try to keep, then President Trump from further abusing his power.
We close this announcement by saying God bless the United States of America, and may God bless our United States Congress.
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Email to Alabama Democratic and Republican party organizationsFrom: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 at 10:54:39 AM CST
Subject: Boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
Dear Alabama Democratic and Republican party organizations:
I am advocating that Democrats, as well as conscientious Republicans and others, boycott President-Elect Trump's inauguration.
My reasoning and rationale for this are set forth at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration.
Thank you for whatever consideration you choose to give to this.
Robert Shattuck
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 at 06:57:31 PM CST
Subject: Boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
What do Alabama lawyers think about boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration, based on the reasoning and rationale set out at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration?
Thanks.
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 06:23:10 PM CST
Subject: Boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
Building on my December 12th email to you, I throw out for your consideration the idea of Democrats and conscientious Republicans boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration on the basis of the reasoning and rationale set out at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration.
Thank you for you for indulging this further intrusion on you.
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2024 at 06:39:49 PM CST
Subject: Boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
Building on my December 18th email to the Alabama State Bar Bench & Bar Relations Committee, I throw out for your consideration the idea of Democrats and conscientious Republicans boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration on the basis of the reasoning and rationale set out at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration.
Thank you for indulging this further intrusion on the Alabama State Bar Bench & Bar Relations Committee.
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: sctndp@gmail.com <sctndp@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 04:48:32 AM CST
Subject: Email from Alabama - boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
I am in Alabama and am trying to spread the idea of a formal boycott of President-Elect Trump's inauguration on the basis of the reasoning and rationale set out at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration.
If you think this is meritorious, please spread the idea to Democratic party organizations in Tennessee.
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 04:58:27 PM CST
Subject: Boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
Building on my December 13th email to you, I throw out for your consideration the idea of Democrats and conscientious Republicans boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration on the basis of the reasoning and rationale set out at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration.
Thank you for indulging this further intrusion on you.
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: [email addresses omitted here]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2024 at 10:46:16 AM CST
Subject: Boycotting President-Elect Trump's inauguration
Dear loyal Friends,
I muchly solicit your opinions about whether Democrats and conscientious Republicans should boycott President-Elect Trump's inauguration on the basis of the reasoning and rationale set out at The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Democrats should boycott the inauguration.
For those of you on the Democratic side, do you think the national leadership of the Democratic party should call for such a boycott? If not, why do you think they should not call for such a boycott.
For those of you on the Republican side who think the national leadership of the Democratic party should not call for such a boycott, please tell me why.
Possibilities include you believe President-Elect Trump did nothing wrong in connection with January 6th and/or Liz Cheney and others on the January 6th committee egregiously wronged President-Elect Trump in holding the January 6th hearings.
Alternatively, you may believe that President-Elect Trump did wrong in connection with January 6th, but his winning the 2024 election should end the matter. If that is your belief, please address the risk of President-Elect Trump abusing his Presidential power after January 20th and what, if anything, you believe is needed to protect the United States from his abusing his Presidential power after January 20th.
Thank you muchly, loyal Friends.
Sincerely,
Rob
Replies
One friend replied:
"Like it or not, he is the president. Everyone in Washington seems to have accepted the results of the elections. So, I don’t think they would be making much of a point by boycotting."
"I tend to agree with [above first friend]. He was elected - the people voted, albeit at a tiny margin. Let this play out. Happy New Year everyone! 'Gird your loins' as my dear mother would have said."
"I agree also with [above first friend]…time to move on and hope everything goes well and we see more positive than negative change. Cannot live in the past forever."
On January 6, 2021, President-Elect Trump, as the then President of the United States, attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to then President-Elect Joe Biden.
Unlike that criminal attack on democracy on January 6, 2021, today, January 6, 2025, a peaceful transfer of power is taking place in the Capitol Building where the electoral votes are being counted and certified by the United States House of Representatives.
In calling for a boycott of President-Elect Trump's inauguration, we are in no way interfering with the peaceful transfer of power to him, but instead we are announcing to the American people and to the world that we will try to stand as a bulwark against President-Elect Trump abusing his Presidential power after January 20, 2025, as he abused his Presidential power during his first term of office.
Jan. 3-5 march; Amendment 14, Section 3 [added 1/1/25]With her heightened sense of power, @SenKatieBritt should understand significance of Democratic leadership & conscientious Republicans formally announcing on Ellipse next Monday a January 20th boycott of President-Elect Trump's inauguration. https://t.co/kKcAEkH3CW#alpolitics https://t.co/baCye9uuOn
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 31, 2024
See The Final Battle against Donald J. Trump: Jan. 3-5 DC march; Amend. 14 Sec. 3 for an alternative idea. It would seem that the priority should be to get the foregoing suggestions (and any other ideas) in front of Democrats and Republicans in leadership positions for them to decide what should be done.
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