Letter to the editor: Trump will get fair trials

In the letter “Trump charges sign of election tampering” (May 7, TribLive), we find the question, “How can we possibly perceive the roughly 90 felony charges leveled against the Republican candidate by multiple Democratic prosecutors in multiple Democratic-led cities as anything other than blatant election tampering?”

The defendant in these cases has the presumption of innocence in advance of trials by juries of his peers. These juries will not be composed of only Democrats. Yet the writer presumes that the grand juries that issued the indictments are guilty of election interference.

But the writer’s mistakes go beyond this fact-free accusation. Jack Smith, the prosecutor for two of these cases, is not a Democrat. This is a matter of record and easy to verify. He is also a highly respected prosecutor of cases in American and international courts with a record of fairness. In addition, the judge in one of the cases was appointed by Donald Trump and has done her best to indefinitely delay the trial in the Republican state of Florida.

It is ironic that Democrats are falsely being accused of election tampering when Trump allegedly did everything he could to tamper with the election of 2020.

Robert J. Reiland

O’Hara