In reading the Oct. 21 front page story of James Comey’s trial and his lawyers’ claim that the case is “driven by Trump’s personal animus,” the president is probably thinking to himself: “Welcome to My World” because he’s had plenty of Dem-driven witch hunts laid upon him. How appropriate that Comey’s trial is taking place during Halloween — the witch-hunt season. This is a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black.

• Hubbard

A recent edition of your newspaper had another full page of property tax issues for cities, towns and villages in Mahoning County. Since the recent revaluation, my taxes have been increased from $3,600 to $4,800 per year. That’s a 33% increase. Since the rate of inflation is around 3% that amounts to a 30% increase in income for the governmental units who are asking us for more money. I plan to vote on Nov. 4 and I mean to say “NO” to all taxes that apply to me.

• Poland

In that Donny is making all of us sacrifice during these hard times, should he not set an example by staying off the golf course and costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars?

• Youngstown

A brilliant quote, “Money and power can help you rewrite history, until even you believe it, but in the end, everyone needs the truth.” This administration is trying to erase history in so many areas of our lives, and in turn pushing fallacies and lies on us to make us THINK they actually care for us. They don’t. For Trump, only praise and tributes and monuments to him are what matters. He’s a schoolyard bully who wants constant attention, constantly.

• Liberty

What MAGA and many who voted for Trump failed to realize was that he is a grifter. It’s all about money and self-aggrandizement. He lied from the beginning that he was fighting for them. All he ever wanted was their vote. Since he no longer needs their vote, farmers, rural and poor people don’t matter. That’s why he’s cutting social services like Medicare and Medicaid while he’s doubled his wealth in 9 months and is tearing down the East Wing to build a party room.

• Campbell

Nutria, a mix of beaver and rat, weighing up to 25 pounds, occupy bayou and levee embankments by burrowing and often causing collapse and disaster in Louisiana. A busy beaver MAGA rep, from there, is undermining Congress by digging holes in our laws and Constitution to provide a safe lair from the Epstein files plus a ballroom for an even bigger rat. Maybe the big rat will learn some dance moves that make him look less foolish on foreign red carpets.

• Canfield

Trump has gotten way too big for his britches. We haven’t elected just a King; we’ve elected a Mad King — a crazy, corrupt, old monster. My advice? Invoke the 25th Amendment — get that guy out of there!! He desecrates the White House!! Not his house, it’s “We The Peoples’ House!!”

• Austintown

Trump, liar-in-chief, said he wouldn’t tear down the East Wing of the Peoples’ White House, but has done so, and is building a 90,000-square-foot gigantic ballroom addition, larger than the White House, that has ballooned from $200 million to $300 million hundred in cost. Believe me, by the time it is complete, it will have cost $1 billion more for furnishings and tacky ‘gold’ decorations. Decades of history will have been erased and WE will be paying for Trump’s folly.

• Liberty

I see the illustrious Al Cutrona appeasing his local constituants in Poland! If he and others were genuine about saving the Poland Library building they might offer to help raise funds to save it. Methinks a GoFund me account would be a start! Responsible solutions are the way. Cheers!

• Sebring

The destruction of an iconic American structure is the latest display of Trump’s arrogance and ignorance. He is destroying a piece of American history so he can build a White House Mar-A-Lago and sell it piece by piece to his wealthy donors. Corruption at its finest.

• Canfield

Some of the comments from the mayor in the paper today about SOBE leave me amazed. The city and do gooders have harassed, sued the company and tied them up in court for years now. Stopping the plans to upgrade and expand capabilities. Then when the company is broke from fighting city hall and basically abandons the business, the city cries and asks how did this happen? Then the mayor takes it out on the new guy the court put in place to fix things. Go figure!

• Girard

Wokeness associates with love. Fascism associates with hate. Which one are you? There is no middle ground. It’s a pass / fail.

• Boardman

Rather than deporting hard-working immigrants, craft a path to citizenship. Rather than sending billions to Argentina, help American farmers. Rather than destroying ACA, design a better plan. Rather than creating a “tasteless, gaudy, faux gold” Oval Office, fund the arts Rather than spending billions desecrating the iconic rose garden with a concrete patio and knocking down part of the “people’s house” to create a “Mar-a-Lago North” ballroom, fund medical research, public broadcasting and education.

• Boardman

If you’re an unpaid government employee or one of the 7 million patriots who plainly, peacefully and loudly voiced their disregard for Trump, you probably won’t like his ballroom. It’s being grafted to the White House like a Frankenstein limb. Trump told you he would pay for it. He didn’t tell you he would put the bite on defense contractors for most of the cash. So, you’ll pay taxes to cover weapon systems costs.

• Canfield