READER'S EDITORIAL: TRUMP’S GUILTY VERDICT SHOULD DISQUALIFY HIM FROM OFFICE

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By Elizabeth Luther-Olave, El Cajon

By now, we’ve all heard the news that Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying his company's business records to keep information from voters that he knew would harm his 2016 presidential campaign.

This isn’t just about “hush money” payments. It’s about breaking the law to hide the truth from the American people 11 days before a presidential election.

Trump has a clear pattern of lying to the American people and trying to undermine our elections in order to cling to power. He still faces three additional indictments and 54 criminal charges, including federal charges for inciting an insurrection to overturn the 2020 election. In spite of all of this, he’s still running for president.

Donald Trump is a convicted fraudster and criminal who still poses a massive threat to our fundamental freedoms. We can’t let him hold the highest office in our land in 2025. It’s up to all of us to hold him accountable and defeat him at the ballot box in November.

The opinions in this editorial reflect the views of the reader and do not necessarily reflect the views of East County Magazine. To submit an editorial for consideration, contact editor@eastcountymagazine.org

 


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Barack Obama

Served 2 terms as president, highly educated, self made man, did a lot of good for this country, yet MAGA minions still believe that he did not do a good job as president for 8 years. This is a glaring example of how so many republicans hate democrats for no valid reason. Led by Trump, they will spin the lies about everything president Obama did wrong. I truly believe many people cannot do their own independent thinking and deducing of the truth by fact checking and using common sense. SMH

Trump battle of words with women of NABJ!

It was a sad sight to see and listen to the former President Donald Trump denigrate the black women reporters of the National Association of Black Journalists, it was downright disrespectful! I am very familiar with the NABJ, as being from Chicago I would attend their meetings, and knew the former President of the organization, Dorothy Tucker, who attended my church in Chicago, and also graduated from the same high school as my sister, Austin. It was a shameful display of respect, or lack there of, especially coming from a former President of the United States. And, to top it off, former President Trump, questioned if the presumptive Democratic candidate of the United States, Kamala Harris, was even black! Shameful!

 

Ha! Written as rehearsed.

Keep in mind congress has paid out millions to cover up affairs and misdeeds by Congressmen. If they prosecuted every CEO who had an affair with an employee, and then paid to keep it quiet, we would have a lot of CEOs in jail. We still do not know exactly what crime he is guilty of as the jury never made that clear. Now it is 2024, and Trump is in the lead, and Biden Harris is a very weak slate. The Bragg case, according to every objective experienced lawyer who has opined, including Dershowitz, has said the entire case is completely not only without any merit, and was run by a judge who made numerous major errors, but is clearly a set up with the judge being selected outside of normal court routine. The jury instructions were essentially a directed verdict. In another case, the Dems rolled out the woman who accused Trump of sexual assault 20 years ago, well beyond the statute of limitations, and they had the NY State legislature change the statute to allow that case to go forward. The real estate fraud case is total crap. Nobody was damaged at all. Every bank was fully repaid on time. Under banking regs, banks are responsible these days to get their own independent appraisals, and to do their own valuations. That case is as concocted and staged as the Bragg case. It was designed to bankrupt Trump. And then there is the documents case, which it seems has real flaws with an illegally appointed special prosecutor, and the GA case with the prosecutor who has real issues of conflict. All four of the prosecutors went to the White House and met with the lawyers there before filing charges, and then Bragg gets the number 3 official in DOJ to leave his high-level job and become a low-level local prosecutor for this case. Nobody does that. Recall the 51 intel officials who signed a letter saying the laptop was Russian disinformation, and now that laptop is the proof they will use to convict Hunter. There are also the continuing efforts to get Thomas off the court, and now Alito, and to expand the court with Biden appointments. SCOTUS is all that stands between them and saving our nation. If Trump loses, we will lose the Supreme Court and our liberties. Lastly, they have open borders so they can have millions of illegals vote by mail to be ballot harvested with no voter ID. A few dollars to the illegals and they will sign a ballot. That is exactly how LBJ won his TX governor election. It is also how Daley did it in Chicago, and how JFK became the unelected president. Obama learned from Daley. This is going to be Chicago and LBJ revisited. Taken altogether, this is the latest effort by the Dems to get rid of Trump, and to get total control. Piece all of this together for yourself, and you have a many year’s conspiracy, and an attempt to get full control of the government by Obama and Clinton, but mainly Obama. This is the real threat to democracy. A series of events of this nature and magnitude does not happen without someone planning and directing it - Obama. It is all funded by Arabella. If you are old enough you recall Beria, the secret police chief under Stalin. “Show me the man and I will show you the crime.” You just witnessed this.

211 Can Help

211 can help you find the mental health professionals you may need. Your rantings are illogical, and for the most part racist.

Tim, you don’t know Chicago like I know Chicago!

Tim, you don't know Chicago like I know Chicago, otherwise you would not have made such an outrageous comment as you did about former President Barack Obama or former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Barack Obama gave that famous Father's Day speech about a father's commitment to their children at my former church on the south side of Chicago, Apostolic Church of God! Also, I wrote the review of a book in which this East County Magazine; "Obama Talks Back", which contributed towards the author winning the NAACP Image Award in Literature. I actually worked in the Daley Administration as a Specification Engineer at O'Hare International Airport writing and awarding millions of dollars in contracts for the purchase of vehicles and equipment at the airport, in addition to negotiating MBE/WBE/DBE participation on contracts. I also am pictured at City Hall in Chicago with Daley and my children, celebrating my son being honored as the Prince of the "Bud Billiken" parade on the south side of Chicago. Additionally, when former President Barack Obama was running for president, I covered him in a story at the San Diego Convention Center in his campaign against John McCain, who was also at that event. Tim, we should be careful and more precise about making those types of outrageous statements and pronouncements as you have made in your subject comment.

felony – a crime punishable by death

or imprisonment in excess of one year. . .a person who has been convicted of a felony, such as grand theft, kidnapping, or murder (unless you're Donald Trump with 34 "felonies").

Trump

Republican MAGA diehards should do their own investigation and fact checks instead of listening to all the propaganda, lies, and deception. Social media is not always a valid news source. Obviously Trump spews a lot of BS at his rallies as he baffles the audience with smoke and mirrors speeches that he's honed for many years. Tell the lies long enough, and people will start to believe them, including the one who's mouth is moving. Trump has a very long history of improper business dealings, including bankruptcy, failed ventures, and generally screwing people while enriching himself and the Trump family. Example: Trump University, among many other failures. I find it audacious and humorous when Trump's minions get upset if something negative is said about him - to the point of near violence. Example: Republicans firmly believe it's Biden's fault for everything wrong in this country, such as the economy they insist is worse off now than under trump's term. They also want Joe Biden to go to jail, yet protect Donald Trump for similar issues, such as the Secret Documents situation. Then justify their rhetoric by using distracting words. All the while blinded by who they believe should be elected in 2024. If Trump is elected, then we will see what happens. Maybe it's possible that many people want a dictator running America.