Letter to the editor: A rundown of the last 8 years

Many Americans are conflicted about what significant events actually happened politically in, and to, our great country, over the past eight years. Both sides accuse each other of continually lying. As a political junkie of many years, here is my summary of the essential, pertinent, verifiable facts of the last eight years as I see them.

From 2020 to 2024, President Biden did a really lousy job of running our country. His left-wing big government spending, and his efforts to eliminate the use of American fossil fuels, drove the inflation of prices from 2% a year under President Trump to over 7% a year, and spiked our bloated federal deficit.

His aggressive border policy created havoc and accelerated drug and child trafficking and crimes by illegal immigrants. Wars flared up in Ukraine and throughout the Middle East. He used the Department of Justice, the FBI and state prosecutors as weapons to try to destroy Trump. They attacked Trump personally, and not for his policies or job performance.

In 2024, Trump went directly to the American people who voted overwhelmingly to put him back in office and clearly rejected Biden/Harris, the Democrats and their mainstream media accomplices.

In measuring Trump, don’t judge him on what “they,” the media, say he said. Judge him for what he does, because unlike Biden, many politicians and the left-wing media, he tells it like he believes it is.

Ron Raymond

Buffalo Township