It wasn’t all that long ago when a reporter asked Donald Trump, “Have you ever asked God for forgiveness?” Trump’s reply was, “I don’t like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don’t do a lot of things that are bad.” God might disagree.
It was Abraham Lincoln who supposedly said, “You can fool all of the people some of the time.” Does this adage apply to people like the writer of the letter “Trump is the antidote” (Aug. 26, TribLIVE)? He writes, for example, that Trump “donated his entire salary as president to charity and donated every penny earned from foreign officials who stayed in his hotels to charity in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety.” Well, what about when Chinese president Xi stayed at Mar-a-Lago? Trump only leased the government-owned hotel in the Old Post Office. Yet he eventually sold that lease for more than a third of a billion dollars. Not much charity there.
Trump charged everyone on his Secret Service detail the highest possible rates whenever they stayed at his properties. Nothing like grifting off the federal dime.
As far as charity goes, the Trump Foundation was shut down by the courts and all of its assets were seized because Trump was spending donations on himself, his adoring hangers-on and his loyal political stooges.
The writer writes that Trump is “a true patriot beholden to the people alone.”
All this praise for a self-inflated sawdust Caesar who has no ethics, morals or class.
Jim Harger
New Kensington