I was sad to see that your editorial "Republicans Need to Dump Trump" proved you have swallowed the bait thrown out to gullible voters by the Democratic strategists. Their play book is to tar Trump with so many bogus accusations that voters with less than complete grasp of the facts will conclude that with so much smoke there must be fire. While you are certainly entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts.
The first impeachment was based on one phone call where Trump, in front of many other people, asked the Ukrainian president to look into the facts surrounding the singular firing of a prosecutor who was investigating a company paying Biden the younger large sums of money. The same crowd that was so indignant over this request has demonstrated a remarkable lack of curiosity about allegations both Bidens were paid millions to make sure this prosecutor got the chop.
Editor, you then damn Trump based on the work of the January 6 committee, and claim the indictment cooked up by Mr. Smith confirms those findings. You may not understand, but most of your readers will, that the conclusions reached by any investigation sired by Nancy Pelosi and steered by Bennie Thompson will be completely barren of fairness, honesty, or impartiality.
But your main complaint is that Trump felt the 2020 election was crooked and did all he could to right what he felt was a wrong. Do you realize that almost two thirds of Republican voters, including this writer, agree with Trump that the 2020 election was not on the square? Too, it takes no prophet to predict that any future election in big cities controlled by the Democrat machines, which feature mail out ballots, drop boxes, ballot harvesting, no signature verification, unenforced deadlines, no photo identification, and the systematic exclusion of Republican poll watchers, is going to be as crooked as the 2020 election was.
More disturbing is your reliance on the allegations contained in indictments, your assumption that simply because a prosecutor says it that must make it true. That attitude violates the fundamental fairness underlying our judicial system, where a defendant is assumed innocent until proven guilty, and the language of an indictment is no evidence of any kind. I could understand such an error if there were any chance these were legitimate investigations, but every aspect of these proceedings screams partisan attacks by partisan hacks. The most cursor review of Jack Smith's record in political prosecutions should be enough to give any educated person pause. Before now we didn't try to put our political enemies in jail – we worked to defeat them at the ballot box.
The rule of law is the only structure that separates this country from banana republics and third world countries. The sinister assault on this fundamental bedrock of our country the Biden apparatus has launched has harmed our country in ways that will last long after the Biden crime family has faded from our national life.
Lastly, you lament the number of Republicans who have seen through the Democratic ploy and have not seen the light about Trump that you have. Perhaps, editor, what we have here is an example of the whole army being out of step except you.
With Trump we get a strong economy, less regulation, respect abroad, strength in foreign policy, energy independence, conservative philosophy of government, no involvement in far off wars, an effective military, and a government based on common sense. In normal times that would be good enough for me.
But these are not normal times. Today this country faces a whole set of glaring, unique structural problems – a two-tiered justice system, a politicized FBI, a bureaucracy determined to control every aspect of our lives, out of control and irrational federal spending, an exploding national debt, a corrupt news media, and a rogue deep state – all problems that have to be solved if America is to continue. Solutions will only flow from a leader with the strongest of strong personalities, one whom the slings and arrows from the champions of the status quo will not deter. Donald Trump is the only person who fits that bill.
Robert S. Murphree is a Northsider.
