Letters

It gets tiring to hear Republicans try to tout Trump’s accomplishments without ever naming one. I guess if you are very wealthy you might enjoy the tax cuts, but if you are an average citizen there will be tax increases for you coming, courtesy of Trump.

Trump lost in 2016 by 3 million votes, and now, five years later, more evidence of 2016 election fraud by Republicans is coming to light. Trump lost in 2020 by the greatest margin in history; his court cases to overturn the election speak volumes: 0-60.

Trump’s ex-wife said he kept a copy of “Mein Kampf” at this bedside. He learned to tell the “Big Lie,” and his bootlickers, like Lee Zeldin, keep the big lie going. (Please also remember that Republicans have won the popular vote for president only once since 1988.)

It’s tiring to hear Republicans ask, what has Biden done in 47 years? Instead, let’s look at what Trump has done in the last 47 years: accused of raping women, assaulted women, cheated on three wives, paid off porn stars, declared bankruptcy multiple times, cheated workers, hired illegal workers, reportedly holds secret bank accounts with China, sold multiple properties to Russians for amounts greater than their value, met with Vladimir Putin and destroyed those notes, invited Russians to the Oval Office with only the Russian press in attendance, lied about the severity of COVID-19 (listen to Bob Woodward’s interview), lied to the American people 30,000-plus times, held super-spreader rallies, profited off the office of president, called our troops “losers” and “suckers,” strained relations with our NATO allies, withdrew from the Paris Accord, etc. Let’s not forget that Trump owes between $421 million and $1 billion, so he is compromised; do you wonder how many secrets he has sold to pay interest on that debt?

If all of that isn’t enough, Trump incited his followers to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021: the worst insurrection on the Capitol since the British incursion in 1814.

It’s tiring to hear about Hunter Biden, while Ivanka and Jared made millions supposedly working for the U.S. government. Ivanka also received numerous trademarks from China during that same period of time.

When I was in history class, back in Pierson High School, my teacher had been in Germany during Hitler’s rise in the late 1930s. She had attended Hitler’s rallies and witnessed Hitler’s sway over average German people.

It was a powerful lesson.

Carol Gloninger

Sag Harbor