Edwards is misguided in praising Trump
To the Editor:
Rep. Chuck Edwards greeted attendees at the Republican Party's 11th Con-gressional District convention with: “Isn't it great to be making America great again?” Was that a question, Congressman Edwards, a prayer or an affidavit?
Edwards ended the conclave telling participants he is “proud of what Republicans stand for, what we're accomplishing,” warning that “the work of remaking America in his image (meaning Trump's) is far from complete.”
Allow me, please, to confront the obvious. Is Donald Trump truly the president the Grand Old Party of Lincoln yearns to have our nation remade in the image of? I certainly hope not. Here's why.
Donald Trump incited a riot at the Capitol resulting in the death and maiming of police officers guarding it and our Congress. Individually targeted were the Speaker of the House and his own vice president.
Trump has fired thousands of federal workers unfairly, jailed migrants who have done nothing wrong, without due process (that's illegal and immoral on the surface), while wrongly pardoning approximately 1,500 men and women who pleaded or were found guilty in a court of law of participating in the siege of our Capitol this president provoked in a futile attempt to overturn an election he knew he'd lost.
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Trump, twice impeached, was lawfully and rightfully convicted on 34 counts of fraud, he bragged about sexually assaulting women and was found civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation. He also paid off another woman to cover up an affair.
He knowingly stole classified documents and hid them from the government, risking national security. He urged Georgia election officials to “find votes” in a state he lost.
He called President Zelenskyy of Ukraine a dictator and tried to extort him to dig up dirt on the Biden family, while aligning with a real dictator (Vladimir Putin), believing Putin’s claims over his own intelligence community.
He mocked a disabled reporter, said that Senator and former Naval aviator and POW John McCain was not a hero, and routinely refers to American war dead as “losers and suckers.”
Trump continually alienates and/or threatens our neighbors and allies with inane propositions (such as wanting to make Canada our 51st state), constantly disrupting world eco-nomic stability and commerce.
Americans: Whatever your race, color, creed or political persuasion, the reality and truth remains and will survive all Trump's attempts to conceal or destroy it.
Donald Trump has done more damage to this country in the first 100 days of this administration than his predecessors did in the last 100 years. He's cruel, he's moronic, he's incomprehensible and he's irrational (among other things). Anyone who still believes Trump is playing with a full deck is short a few cards himself.
As stated by the longtime and gifted journalist, Hal Crowther: "If Trump isn't a psychiatric trainwreck, he's one of the most ambitious actors in history, and the most dangerous actor since John Wilkes Booth." A role model for the United States to emulate? Oh, I don't think so.
David L. Snell
Franklin
