The LuLac Edition #4,357, July 22nd, 2020

WRITE ON WEDNESDAY

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This week we pick out a letter penned to the Citizens' Voice regarding the conduct of Donald Trump as President. There would be many who will tell you this letter writer nailed it.

TRUMP, TREASON AND VLADIMIR PUTIN

Editor: President Trump has decided his road to reelection is to cry “hoax” and “treason” about every situation and person with which he is unhappy. Except Vladimir Putin.
The president calls Russia’s meddling in our election a “hoax,” even if the entire national security apparatus says it happened. He refers to climate change as a “hoax” even though science recognizes that it is happening. Unfavorable polls are also a “hoax” even when they are conducted by FOX.
COVID-19, according to Trump is a “hoax” which, to date, has killed 130,000 Americans. The need for police reform is a ”hoax” even though we have all witnessed brutal murders with our own eyes. Vote-by-mail is a “hoax” even though Trump himself does it. And finally, Russian bounties on American corpses are a “hoax” that the president does not have the courage to condemn. Especially to Putin.
James Comey and Andrew McCabe were accused of “treason” for trying to get to the bottom of the Russian interference and because they would not go easy on Michael Flynn. Congressman Adam Schiff and all Congressional Democrats were also “treasonous” because they impeached the president for “shaking down“ Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Biden. And, astoundingly, Trump accused former President Obama because he hoped it might help him in the polls.
But through all of this, Trump has never had a bad word for Putin. Why not?
We remember Trump standing next to Putin in Helsinki. Shockingly, we remember Trump believing Putin and denying the investigative results of the entire U.S. intelligence community. We remember Trump telling us that he believed Russia, the country that had launched a cyberattack against the United States, and that he intended to do absolutely nothing about it.
Why does Trump stand with Putin? Maybe ”treason” is the reason.
Andrea Glod
Wilkes Barre