Unfair to Trump

Sunday’s Post continued scurrilous attacks on Donald J. Trump, aided by the Associated Press and editorial page editor Hugh Bailey.

Bailey belittles the Electoral College as a “tradition outlived any usefulness it once had.” The college has state representatives. Representation is a constitutionally significant function in a republic.

So in a presidential election we don’t actually vote for a candidate per se; we vote for representatives pledged to the candidate we choose. This is consistent with having representatives at the local, state and federal legislatures.

Bailey likes the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would force each compact states’ legislature to appoint Electoral College electors committed to vote for the candidate winning the national popular vote, irrespective of the majority vote in their state. How is that better than the present straightforward system?

The Post ran three AP articles on page A10. A report on initial distribution of COVID-19 vaccine had not one word of attribution for President Trump’s successful and historic push to get it done so quickly.

Reporting on Trump supporter rallies in D.C., Stop the Steal and Jericho March, the AP just had to work in pejorative and asinine remarks: “rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election”; “Trump refuses to resign while clinging to baseless claims of fraud”; “pushing debunked claims of election fraud.”

The article on Hunter Biden’s DO J investigation slammed Trump, saying “President Donald Trump and his allies have long argued, without evidence.”

Paul G. Littlefield Shelton