Anyone who can support Trump is not a patriot
To the Editor:
Donald Trump was a terrible president and is a horrific candidate.
Anyone who can support Trump is not a patriot. I include members of Congress (like Elise Stefanik), the Senate, and certain Albany County legislators in this group. Take heed of the facts.
His continuing efforts to end American democracy since his loss in 2020 to Joe Biden, who has been a good president to all Americans.
Trump is a known sex offender, epic grifter and liar, an insurrectionist, a stealer of state secrets and lover of dictators, especially Vladimir Putin.
He’s responsible for ending Roe and stripping rights and freedoms from women.
He had a public relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, one of the most significant sex traffickers and pedophiles in the modern history of the United States.
He claims he built “the greatest economy in the history of the world” during his first term in office. But like Republican presidential predecessors, his tax breaks for the rich and big corporations failed. Even before the pandemic, American job growth slowed under Trump.
In total, he oversaw a net loss of nearly 3 million jobs -— the worst presidential job performance on record. (The United States has added over 14 million new jobs under Biden — more than under any previous president in a single term. It’s not just Trump’s economy that was bad for America. An analysis shows the economy has grown twice as fast under Democrats as under Republicans over the last 90 years. Republican presidents have led us into the three worst economic crises of the last century, and Democrats led us out of them.)
In the last year of his presidency, more than 450,000 Americans died from COVID-19 and life expectancy fell by 1.13 years, the biggest decrease since World War II. His incompetent and malevolent response to the COVID-19 pandemic capped a presidency suffused with health-harming policies and actions along with a steady drumbeat that the vaccines and the science behind them were false.
His dismissal, lack of support, and outright lies on the impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, where studies estimated the hurricane caused nearly 3,000 of island citizens’ deaths in the six months following the storm.
He talks and raves more and more like a madman. He’s become ever-more terrifying because of what he put the country through in his one term as president and where he has already said he wants to take us if he gets a second term.
His latest is calling for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services just announced that over 20 million people have selected an Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace plan since the 2024 Marketplace Open Enrollment Period launched on Nov. 1 — a record number.
He wants the economy to crash; he will exterminate the vermin.
So who are you voting for in November?
Christine Primomo, R.N.
Ravena
I know exactly where you got your information... you have to do your own research and challenge your beliefs.
The comments by the poster repeat the standard talking points of the Democratic Party using scare tactics to sway their voters towards their candidate. You can see the desperation in their posts by the way they present information that is programmed into their minds rather than doing their own research, as TD has clearly stated, and are not able to have a simple conversation if challenged. There is a big difference between a post of hate and a post of truth. These posts of hate are simply moving more people towards Trump as they figure out through real research, the best candidate that will get their vote.
You have no idea where they obtained these facts. The fact remains, that these are 100% truthful. Real americans are sick of conman trump, and know that a trump presidency would once again bring chaos to the country. As president, he did nothing but lie and grift, and then as his magnum opus, he attempted to overthrow the peaceful transition of power that essential to our functioning democracy.
Maybe if you were better educated or at least had the ability to critically think and examine complex situations, you would not be so in love with an orange man who cares more about his "tan" than America and its many values. Maybe.
It’s still shocking that in this country, that used to stand for something, there are people who support someone who is an insurrectionist, got out of military service as only someone whose daddy has money could, who wants the approval of fascists, is a narcissist, a bully, has been married three times and remains a serial cheater, lies as much in his financial dealings as he does in the rest of his life, scoffs at democracy, takes voting rights, medical rights, and human rights from citizens of the United States, and is only interested in his own power and glory. The President of the United States is not a dictator position. It’s a position of service and Trump wouldn’t know the first thing about being in service except for others serving him. Despite how he’s depicted by supporters, he is not religious, not patriotic, is not a “man of the people” and has been caught repeatedly on open mics making fun of his supporters. He knows they are people he can convince, connive and use, but he would run over every one of them if it would get him what he wants. He has no real feelings, compassion or empathy for anyone, but Donald Trump. He is everything we teach our children not to be and not to hang out with and yet there are those who support him for President? That level of hypocrisy is truly cognitive dissonance. Our children and grandchildren deserve so much better, including a president who is truly a positive role model, worthy of them and deserving of respect, who lives with honor and understands they are serving the people and not themselves. There has never been a time in our lifetimes when voting has been more important. Please show up. Send a resounding message about who we are and what we stand for, including for all the young people watching us, counting on us, and knowing they will inherit what we put in motion.