Letters

It’s impossible to respond to so much misinformation, distortion and outright anger permitted in the editorial [“Reality Check,” December 17], the Phil Keith column [“… And The Madness Continues,” Mostly Right, Opinion, December 17] and the chosen letters that savaged Lee Zeldin last week.

It was very clear that any question of ballot handling raised by Republicans would not be investigated unless they could be established as significant enough in scope so as to reverse an election result. Raising these questions (as the letters and columns revealed) was not only immaterial to the outcome but a dangerous undertaking, threatening the sanctity of our elections, democracy and our very Constitution.

The editorial went so far as to refer to it as some kind of delusion. The real delusion is in believing that the elections were flawlessly managed, ballots were pristine, voter rolls were clean, recounts could compare signatures, and election laws were scrupulously adhered to.

The editorial excoriated the “outright falsehoods” and “absurdities” that have been “debunked” in a whitewash of the process. Don’t buy it.

Other questions exist, but this list should be sobering enough to contemplate if you really value free and fair elections and the sanctity of every vote.

The “Hail Mary” attempt by Texas and the supporting states to get a hearing in the Supreme Court was mostly an attempt by the Trump loyalists to demonstrate their fealty one last time to their supporters and president. It was not the distorted effort to subvert the election it was portrayed as. The Trump — and, by extension, Lee Zeldin — haters only wished to make it appear so. Their true delusion is their faith in Joe Biden.

I found Geoffrey Basson’s lament [“A Lot To Do,” Letters, December 17] about the need for independence of the Department of Justice completely unsound. Mr. Basson seems to ignore the fact that the current attorney general, Bill Barr, deliberately withheld the fact that an investigation was underway for over two years into Hunter Biden and the Biden family business ventures involving China, Russia and the Ukraine. Mr. Barr chose not to confirm its existence until after the election. This was hardly what President Trump would have wanted. So much for that claim.

Mr. Basson also chooses to laud the patriotism of Colonel Alexander Vindman in accusing the president of malfeasance. I wonder if the much more serious testimony of Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski will be embraced the same way.

Ed Surgan

Westhampton