Letter to the Editor:             

What follows is a list of comments made by former president Donald Trump, or about Trump.  They are from reliable sources, but feel free to use FactCheck.org to verify them. Contrary to what Trump says about FactCheck, it is an unbiased news source, similar to BBC and CNN.

At a Univision event in Florida on Oct. 16, 2024, Trump said, “Nothing done wrong at all,” regarding the riot at our Capitol on January 6, 2021.  Actually, about 140 officers were injured, much damage was done, and the counting of electoral votes by Mike Pence was postponed.  Trump said, “he deserves it” when rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence.” He also said Jan. 6 was a “day of love.”  

On May 10, 2023, at a CNN town hall, he said that he was “inclined to pardon many of the rioters convicted for the assault on our Capitol.” This alone should mean Americans should not support his quest to be president again.

But, of course, there is more. On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, the AP reported Trump as saying, “That’s what you get when you have a rigged election,” regarding the Biden administration. Even though there is no evidence to the contrary, about one-third of Americans believe Trump. Many experts blame it on the new way many Americans get information, mainly from the internet where many lies and conspiracy theories are spread. 

In a book by a longtime Washington reporter, Michael Tackett, he quoted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as saying Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” and “stupid” and “ill-tempered.”

Trump likes to brag that he’s “a really smart person.” One time he said that magnets don’t work if you wet them with water. Not true. He has also criticized Abraham Lincoln for not negotiating his way out of a Civil War. This is the best one, though. At a rally, he told the crowd he’d prefer to be electrocuted by the battery of his sinking boat, instead of being eaten by a shark. Do we want someone this unstable to be our president?

Joe Czarnecki