DEAR EDITOR:

In the dead of night last Friday, the Twitterer in Chief via his own pathetically misnamed internet platform (Truth Social), announced he was attacking Iran. Timing of the announcement provided him leeway to avoid questions why, other than providing distraction from his domestic failures, he acted without congressional advice and consent required by our Constitution.

No one doubts Iran’s fanatical theocrats have repressed their own people while fomenting state sponsored terrorism around the world.

Trump may have cut the heads off this Hydra, but he has no idea what to do with their successors. Chaos ensues.

Meanwhile, Trump has declared phony emergencies with our voting rights, election security, due process, inflation, taxation, trade, alliances, regulations, corporate influence, and persecution of those he considers political enemies. Or, he may falsely frame existing norms and laws as dangerous and try to cancel them by executive order. He adds complexity, not correction, through lies and misinformation.

This helps rile his base, raises needless fears and, most importantly, grants him more authority to make boneheaded decisions unilaterally or with only the incompetent input of his Cabinet and a sycophantic GOP.

He has done significant harm to our republic. His latest military adventure may, as he admits almost as an aside, kill patriots, “as sometimes happens in war”. No kidding! Put the name of your child or someone you know among those patriots and the empathy you feel is something Trump never feels except when whining about his martyrdom.

His propensity to cause harm influences even his birthday party plan for an ultimate fighter match at the White House. Lots of violence with no possibility of harm to, or responsibility for himself.

JIM CARTWRIGHT

Canfield