EDITOR:
Three years ago on Jan. 6, a violent mob, incited by then-President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress, attacked the U.S. Capitol to try and stop the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history.
Now, three years and four indictments later, Trump is running for president again in a desperate attempt to avoid accountability.
If he is re-elected, his plans for a second term include weaponizing the Department of Justice to persecute and retaliate against his political opponents; giving license to political violence by pardoning his own crimes and the crimes of his supporters, including those committed on Jan 6, and even using the military against Americans exercising their first amendment rights. And to make sure his plan succeeds, he’ll purge the federal government of and punish anyone who doesn’t agree with him until there’s no one left to say no.
This is not the America I know. Too much is at stake for voters to allow Trump to take back power.
Trump and those who enabled him must answer for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election and for the violence that followed — in the court of law and at the ballot box.
— M. Kay Taylor, Aurora resident
I guess everyone needs to listen to you. You seem to know exactly what happened on that January 6th and you in all your wisdom know who instigated it. I think that you should investigate before you make comments that you can’t prove. The Department of Justice has been weaponized by the current president. The accusations that you make about President Trump have no basis. President Trump has answered those concerns. The one big thing about President Trump is that he truly has the best interests of the United States first in any decisions. The current president just like Obama has his personal interests first.
We all watched it play out on television and newscasts, and recordings. We heard Trump tell them to march to the Capitol and ‘give them hell.’ We waited hours for him to do something to stop the violence.
His interests are him and his crime family and his acolytes, as long as they remain loyal and subservient (see Pence, Mike). There is nothing admirable about this loutish thug, and I hope that you can come to your senses and stop defending the indefensible.
Setting records. Donald Trump has broken so many and crossed so many lines, he should be in all segments of record breaking.
There has never been a person like him, and by all that’s Holy, hopefully never again!
In Solidarity!!!
He also get donations when he runs for president. I understand his legal costs are overwhelming with all this accountability. His motives are about him and his core base is only embolden by the criminal charges hoping he gets away with it too.