DEAR EDITOR:

Thank you for your July 22 editorial urging readers to ignore Trump’s attempt to distract them with his disruptive team-naming proposals while his focus belongs elsewhere. It is becoming painfully obvious, even to the 26% of voters who supported ever more outlandish Trump rants, that when Trump speaks it’s only in service to Trump, and will be followed by threats, lies and name calling. In children, his behavior is a tantrum akin to who took the cookies.

All the conspiratorial handwringing about releasing the Epstein files is a problem only because Trump fears it will reveal his years of lying about a secret cabal of elites in order to enrage his base while he partied with his friend, a convicted pedophile.

This is the behavior that has made our country the butt of jokes around the world. Next, I expect he will offer a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell to lie. A similar ploy to co-op the NYC chief of police nearly worked. Trump is a tough guy when squeezing the defenseless. He may plan details while the Speaker of the House holds up the “closed” sign on Congress.

Trump’s masked police undermine law and due process with dragnets arresting and detaining people because he lies that they are all murderers, rapists and drug dealers. Federal troops and U.S. Marines are sent to do nothing needed or requested in Los Angeles for an estimated $34 million because Trump lied that they were needed to maintain order. Medicaid funding is cut to give a tax break to billionaires after Trump lied that would not happen. In summary, everything Trump does is to serve his personal desires or cover his tracks.

I hope your editorial will open more eyes so we can move toward a real government and not Trump’s house of cards on its foundation of lies. The growing number of anti-Trump opinion letters in The Vindy reflects rising disgust with him and his toadies.

Amen.

JIM CARTWRIGHT

Canfield