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Trump: a quintessentially American president

To the Editor:

Think about it! Donald Trump didn’t need to be President. He much prefers business to government and certainly didn’t need politics to make him rich. He would have been content to finish out his life proud of his accomplishments and enjoy his family and friends but he saw people being left behind and huge problems not only being ignored but also being exacerbated, by both parties.

Therefore, with his can do attitude he jumped into the race and took his case to the American people and the people decided. In a healthy democratic republic that would have been the end of it, but we don’t have a healthy democracy. Entrenched partisan bureaucrats, the mainstream media and the disloyal opposition party have taken it upon themselves by all means foul to install a puppet government by impeaching and removing him from office. All this because Donald Trump is on to the skullduggery they were involved in to keep him from ever being elected and represents a real threat to the way of Washington in which everyone scratches each other’s backs and washes each other’s hands. Real investigations are underway unlike the phony ones against Trump. Stay tuned.Donald Trump is quintessentially American. That’s why all this Russian collusion nonsense didn’t pass the smell test from the beginning. Everything he’s been accused of his opponents are guilty of. Compare his optimistic view of the country to the faux puritan scolds that hate America. These people think they are so morally superior by feeling sorry for other people’s sins without examining their own. For too long conservatives have let the deranged set the parameters of debate and been afraid of the bad press they might get. I’ll tell you from long experience watching them operate that the (lamestream) press is just a cabal of overinflated, indoctrinated, know-it-all, know-nothing, Ivy League punks that bear false witness shamelessly. Enemy of the people sounds about right. I get it that Trump may not be everyone’s cup of tea either from a personality or policy perspective. However, I can’t see how his motivation of love of country can be honestly doubted. Out of all the Democrat alternatives on offer we only get told how bad we are and how guilty we should feel for living on this earth. Their calling is not to the Presidency but to the altar.David ParkerSylva

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