A coward is “one who lacks courage to meet danger or difficulty.”
   In a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Petitioners ask the results of the 2016 election be declared void, in part, as “To the extent that Donald Trump obtained the Office of President of the United States with the assistance and interference of actors or agents of the government of Russia, has acted in office in such a way as to benefit Russia, and thus has adhered to the government of Russia, Mr. Trump obtained the Office of President of the United States through acts of treason.”
   Department of Justice had opportunity to respond to the allegations of treason. As a former U.S. Attorney has written, Trump’s comments about A.G. Sessions’s decision to recuse “himself from the Russia investigation suggests that Trump sees the position of attorney general as his personal lawyer.”
   DOJ waived answer to the Petition filed in Bailey, et al v. United States, et al, docket 16-1464, a Petition for Writ of Mandamus. DOJ still can seek leave to belatedly answern. Trump need only direct them. If they see the arguments in the Petition as weak, let them say what those weaknesses are. Trump, named as a Respondent in the case, could hire private counsel and so direct them.
   I have addressed the weaknesses others have said exist in this action.
   Trump is a coward, however, and an answer from him is unlikely.
   Trump attended military school. “By his own account, Trump was a golden athlete through high school, ‘always the best player’ on the field, one who excelled ‘not just in baseball, in every sport,’” Metcalf, “Donald Trump, Baby Boomer,” Slate, 5/1/16. Next, Trump, instead of opting for enlistment in our military, had four college deferments. After college, he was classified 1-A. Shortly after, a doctor conveniently found the star athlete Trump had bone spurs on both heels. Trump received a written excuse to stay home from the war.
   This would be of little importance, were Trump not so willing to send others and the children of others into harm’s way. More troublesome are his Russian ties.
   Trump valiantly went into business. What he could not wheedle or bully, he got by giving people “haircuts”—he stiffed subcontractors. If all else failed, he paid the ultimate sacrifice and filed corporate bankruptcy.
   Trump lied, during the 2016 campaign, about his financial ties to Russia. Even—a chorus of conservatives sing at this name—Ronald Reagan issued his tax returns as a candidate.  George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush had portfolios far more complex, and no doubt more successful than Trump’s. They released their returns..
   The schedules to Trump’s returns would show ties to Russia. Worse, Trump might be shown not to be “rich.” In the White House “set” behind Trump, gold draperies, redolent of a monarch, have replaced the dark blue of our Republic’s leader, who has expressed admiration for Russia’s dictator.
   In the film “Excalibur,” Guinevere’s honor is questioned, but only Perceval will come forward to defend the honor of the Queen. Will no one come forward to defend the honor of Trump?
   In Bailey, Petitioners ask for independent investigation of the 2016 elections and, if it is determined Russia’s interference in the election affected the outcome, the election be declared void.
   I am counsel of record for the twelve (12) Petitioners in Bailey, an effort that is not “partisan” for either party, but an effort to take the Oval Office back from a hostile foreign power—Russia.
   If you agree that at the very least an independent investigation, as I have described, should be conducted or, further, the election was stolen, please share this with at least three other people.  Ask each of those people to share, in turn, with three other people.