Many Donald Trump supporters claim his legal troubles are due to a conspiracy of Democratic prosecutors, judges, politicians and others trying to keep him out of the election. A letter-writer asks, “Does anyone honestly believe it is a coincidence that all the Trump cases began at nearly the same time during the election cycle?” (“Trump haters, wake up,” May 15, TribLive). After all, why else would there be so many different lawsuits against him all over the country?
Actually, there is another explanation: Maybe Trump is a crook, a one-man crime wave. A guy who keeps breaking the law every chance he gets.
Over the years, he has been sued thousands of times. This includes hundreds of people who went to court to get paid for their work. He was ordered to pay out millions in a settlement to students cheated by Trump University and several million more for misusing charitable funds, plus $355 million after this year’s civil trial on fraud charges. He was found liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. Dozens of women are waiting to sue him, as are hundreds injured by the Trump mob on Jan. 6. There may be a pattern here, but it’s not a “political persecution.”
Yes, a person is presumed innocent. But it’s reasonable to ask, if he’s innocent, why is he trying to delay all of these legal proceedings? Especially if he wants to win votes by getting off before the election?
Here’s a question for Trump supporters: Do you think a habitual criminal should be running our country?
Robert Supansic
McKeesport