Dead Patriots Society

Without seeking authorization from Congress, with no imminent threat to the United States, and at the insistance of a foreign power, President Trump initiated war against Iran. One objective of that war was regime change, which was not communicated in the sparse consultation between the Secretary of State and eight leaders of Congress. 

Previously, also without Congressional authority, President Trump conducted an act of war against Venezuela by violating its sovereignty to seize its president, and had ordered lethal attacks on non-combatants at sea, killing many scores of people who posed no imminent threat to Americans.

These actions amount to violations of the public trust and abuses of power by President Trump, as do his “weaponization” of the federal justice system, his attempts to subvert free and fair elections, his reckless use of federal agents in seizing and detaining allegedly undocumented people, and his deliberate endangerment of the lives of Members of Congress who reminded members of the armed forces that they have an obligation to not obey illegal orders. 

President Trump appointed loyal “election deniers” to head the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who then purged those agencies of individuals whose allegiance to Trump over the Constitution was in doubt. He has demanded the prosecution of individuals he regards as enemies. He has thus transformed the federal justice system into an instrument of his vengeance.

After trying to fraudulently reverse the 2020 election results, he incited a violent attack on Congress to prevent that election’s certification and the peaceful transfer of power. In his second term he has called on Republican-controlled state legislatures to revise their congressional maps in favor of Republican candidates, called for Republicans to “take over” and “nationalize” elections, and ordered a raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections office. In that raid, F.B.I. agents seized 700 boxes of material from the 2020 election, on the contrived premise that election fraud had occurred, four years after Georgia officials had audited and certified the results of that election, and after courts had rejected numerous lawsuits challenging those results.

Since 2015, he has stereotyped undocumented people as violent criminals. In pursuit of mass deportations his administration has broken up families and traumatized children, ignored court orders and demonstrated contempt for the Constitution and due process. It has detained tens of thousands of people, many in substandard facilities and denied members of Congress access to those facilities. He has deployed the National Guard over the objections of state governors and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act. He has deployed agents who have recklessly violated civil liberties of suspected undocumented people as well as citizens. He has carelessly justified killings by federal agents and opposed proper investigations of those killings.

Over the years, President Trump has risked harm to judges, election workers, and other perceived political enemies with many careless and inciteful public statements. In November of 2025, after unauthorized lethal attacks on people at sea, two U.S. Senators and four Congresspeople, all military veterans or former members of intelligence services, posted a video which reminded members of the armed forces that they were obligated to “refuse illegal orders”. President Trump responded by posting tweets calling them “traitors” and accusing them of “sedition at the highest level”, actions “punishable by death”. He reposted one tweet which said: ”Hang them George Washington would.”  

These offenses amount to “injuries done immediately to the society itself” (Hamilton, Federalist #65). They are sufficient to justify impeachment by the House of Representatives, trial and conviction by the Senate, and removal from office.