Setting the record straight on Trump | Letters to the editor
I would like to express my gratitude to the Sun Sentinel for printing all political opinions. I’ve read the Sun Sentinel and Delray Sun since moving to Florida 15 years ago, so I am very familiar with the names of letter writers Chuck Lehmann and Neil Bluestein.
Lehmann states that Trump just has some warts. No, Trump is a plague. Bluestein says Trump is benevolent. No, Trump doesn’t have a benevolent bone in his body.
Lehmann has opinions on everything and is a master of none. Bluestein is terribly biased and spreads political untruths about our economy and environment. He thinks Trump is the best thing since apple pie. President Joe Biden offers moral leadership, whereas Trump is decapitating democracy.
Bluestein, as an umpire, should stick to balls and strikes. Dictatorship is not an acceptable option in America for even one day. I listen to Trump’s words and he tells us exactly who and what he is. We need to speak truth to power.
My deploring of Trump has little to do with Republican policies and more to do with his criminality and lies, his fascination for dictators and fascists, his attempted insurrection and his misrepresentation of everything good and decent. Trump is the symptom of a dangerous disease in our society. The actual disease is within the MAGA movement. God help us maintain our beloved democracy
Esther Feit, Delray Beach
Trump, in his own words
Reader Neal Bluestein writes that the Sun Sentinel has misquoted and taken out of context the comments of his Lord, God & Savior, Donald Trump. He even tried to defend Trump’s comment that “there were good people on both sides” at Charlottesville. That’s what we’ve come to expect from Bluestein and his self-proclaimed thought provoking pap.
Allow me to provide some verbatim quotes from Dolt 45 (Trump) that can’t be taken out of context.
On cancelling his visit to a veterans cemetery: “It’s filled with losers and suckers.”
On John McCain, widely lauded as a war hero: “He was captured. I like guys that aren’t captured.”
On fighting COVID-19: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that?”
Last but not least, his recorded thoughts on women being willing to be assaulted: “I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the (privates).”
I hope these few tidbits of indisputable, unaltered quotes will appease Mr. Bluestein and restore the Sun Sentinel’s credibility in his mind.
Rita Ouellette, Margate
Trump and Hitler
Letter writer Chuck Lehmann is mistaken. The Sun Sentinel did not despicably equate Trump with Hitler. Trump did that on his own, by using language that Hitler used in his rise to power.
Trump calls immigrants “animals” and his opponents “vermin.” These are almost direct quotes from Hitler’s description of Jews, communists, gays, Blacks, the mentally and physically disabled, and anyone who believed in democracy. Trump’s claims of having the 2020 election “stolen” and his remarks that Democrats are out to get him are reminiscent of Hitler blaming communists for the Reichstag fire in 1933 when it was his private army of “brownshirts” who did the deed.
Are these the words of a statesman or a dictator? Do his myriad indictments for felonies speak to honesty or to criminal behavior? Does his expressed admiration for authoritarian strongmen sound like someone who believes in democracy and the rule of law?
The Sun Sentinel correctly reported without bias that Trump’s statements and attitudes are remarkably similar to Hitler’s. What the paper did not say was that his bigotry, inherited from his father, landed the family business empire in trouble for outright discrimination more than once. If you read this paper regularly, you’d know that neither Biden nor the Democrats have gotten a free pass in the news or editorial pages.
Michael Benjamin, Oakland Park