Long list of Trump’s transgressions
■ Tom Smith (Irish Independent, July 21) complains that reports on Donald Trump are one-sided and the media should report one story from the left and one from the right.
Perhaps someone should explain to Mr Smith that his perception of the criticisms of Trump are not divided between left and right, but between moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, between right and wrong, between what is best for his country and what is best for himself.
Mr Smith asks whether he has actually done anything bad.
Yes, Mr Smith, he has.
He has excused, and defended, the behaviour of US racist organisations, including the Ku Klux Klan, attacking and killing innocent people attending peaceful demonstrations.
He is about to recommend a nominee to the Supreme Court of the USA, a person who will tilt the voting position to the position that will outlaw abortion, and goodness knows what other rights that have been fought for over the last 60 or so years.
He has ordered the forceful separation of children from their parents, of people seeking entry to the USA, flying those traumatised children thousands of miles away to caged incarceration, and openly advocating that the laws of the land and the courts should be expunged and ignored for them; and this as a sop to the fascist element of his followers.
He has lied about his involvement in his son’s meeting with Russian government agents.
He has lied about his involvement in paying money to women to silence them during his presidential campaign from commenting on alleged extra-marital sexual involvements.
He has repudiated ecological agreements previously made by US presidents, claiming that global warming is a sham.
He has castigated his own assistant attorney general for continuing the special prosecutor’s investigation into Russian government interference in the US presidential elections, terrified that the truth of collusion with Russia will come to light.
In attempts to defend himself from a grand jury summons, he has repudiated the integrity and truthfulness of all his country’s intelligence agencies.
All of this, and countless other decisions made either to bolster his ego or to deflect the accusations of his misdemeanours, lies to the American people and culpable felonies including, perhaps, treason in connection with alleged collusion with Russia to protect himself from video recordings and other evidence of lewd behaviour.
Yes, Mr Smith, it is quite possible that he may have done something bad. George Dalzell Stillorgan, Co Dublin