SCOUT'S HONOR

April 16, 2018

 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,
101 Main Street #380
Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman,

Re: Scout’s honor

Regarding the James Comey brouhaha: it’s pretty simple, really, isn’t it? Who are you going to believe, the man who’s proves himself almost daily to be a compulsive, serial liar… or the Eagle Scout?

I agree that Comey can be a pretty annoying witness. The self-righteous, punctilious sense of duty that compelled him to make that spurious statement, days before the 2016 election, that surely contributed to Hillary Clinton’s loss is on display again as he talks about his book and the moral transgressions of Donald Trump. There is a point at which a pious sense of honor overcomes common sense.

But can you seriously doubt that Trump is a liar? Can you condone the attitude toward women expressed not only in the infamous “pussy” tape but in a variety of other circumstances, too? Can you excuse the conflicts of interest that allow him to enrich himself, as well as his family and friends? Can you explain his continuing deference to more than one murderous dictator—though most especially Russia’s Putin? Comey comes across, in his latest ABC interview as elsewhere, as earnest, frank, and scrupulously honest. That a President of the United States would stoop to the kind of petty invective of Trump’s tweets is beyond comprehension. Aside from anything else, it validates everything that Comey has to say about him.

I ask you to join those few Republican voices of conscience that have begun to speak out about the president’s turpitude. Unless you do, you are complicit in his lies and his infantile behavior. 

Respectfully,


Peter Clothier, Ph.D,