To the editor: I notice you are attempting to take care of a semblance of stability in your Opinion part, however can’t a distinguished newspaper just like the Los Angeles Occasions do higher than a political hack like Scott Jennings? (“Why I’m not apprehensive about Trump with out guardrails,” Opinion, Aug. 29)
Jennings is a product of the George W. Bush years and a protégé of the prodigious liar Karl Rove. In his newest piece on former President Trump, nevertheless, he makes an attempt to outdo his mentor.
For instance, with my feedback in brackets:
“For Trump, his actions on Jan. 6 had been a low level in a presidency that in any other case most Republicans discovered greater than palatable. [Apart from the first insurrection since the Civil War.] He reduce taxes [on corporations and the wealthiest Americans], appointed conservative judges [such as the incompetent Aileen Cannon] and stored the nation secure [except for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died when he downplayed the pandemic, put his totally unqualified son-in-law in charge of the medical supply shortage, ignored public health experts and promoted quack remedies such as ivermectin].”
No marvel Jennings endorses a pathological liar for president.
Linda Whitener, Pawleys Island, S.C.
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To the editor: Jennings calls Jan. 6, 2021, a “low level” in Trump’s presidency. The person tried to steal the election!
Jennings says Trump “stored us secure,” though he disbanded our pandemic safety unit earlier than we acquired hit — so there was no plan, no early warning and no quarantines. We had been blindsided and left to fly by the seat of our pants.
That is extra each side, blah, blah, blah, from one other partisan hack.
Michael Schaller, Temple Metropolis
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To the editor: I discover wholly unconvincing Jennings’ religion within the power of institutional guardrails corresponding to Congress and the Supreme Court docket in opposition to a possible second Trump administration.
Trump would disregard the Structure if he may get away with it. He has stated as a lot. And the Republicans in Congress as a bloc have proven no inclination to defend their very own institutional tasks to rein in Trump’s excesses.
The Supreme Court docket, decisively weighted by Trump appointees, has simply expanded the scope of presidential immunity to probably permit for the fee of manifestly unlawful actions.
Jennings says Trump stored our nation secure. This disregards Trump’s culpability in pandemic deaths. His disregard of the consequences of local weather change places all of us, and the complete world, prone to worsening pure disasters.
And I can’t consider Trump when he disassociates himself from the novel remodeling of the federal authorities put ahead by so a lot of his former workers members in Mission 2025.
Somewhat, I discover extremely credible the warnings of those that labored intently with Trump of his unfitness for the presidency. The US will higher survive a doable lurch to the left beneath a system of checks and balances inside our constitutional framework than a lurch towards autocracy that undermines the Structure.
Frank Albers, Seal Seaside
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To the editor: I all the time considered Jennings as considerate and price listening to.
However his article about not worrying that Trump will go off the rails in a second time period as president was itself off the rails. A good suggestion to bomb Mexican drug cartels?
A convicted felon doesn’t belong close to the Oval Workplace, Mr. Jennings.
Greg Figge, Tustin
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To the editor: Likening Trump’s habits within the White Home to President Biden’s made me scratch my head in marvel.
An administration official informed Axios that “nobody is secure” from Biden’s F-bombs, and the daddy of a former intern in Kamala Harris’ workplace stated folks had been in concern of her when she was the legal professional normal of California.
Actually? That’s all you’ve acquired, Mr. Jennings?
I’m glad Jennings says he has religion within the system and voters have an opportunity to reward or punish coverage each two years. I hope Jennings is correct and voters by no means permit Trump close to the White Home once more.
Nancy Reed, Woodland Hills
