Letter explaining vote for Trump draws impassioned responses

sounded like something that I’ve heard before on, oh, say Fox News. I guess my final reaction would be to say, “I smell a Fox nearby!” James Sida, Henderson

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If Donald Trump was Mike Measday’s 15th choice out of 17 Republicans, shouldn’t that have given him a clue that this guy slandered and belittled the other 16 candidates because his qualifications were at the bottom compared to the others?

Measday says it is true that Trump was included in a racial discrimination suit at the age of 27 but that was in 1973. A business bigot is the worst type of bigot.

Measday says it is laughable when it is pointed out that Trump had no political experience, then he tries to draw a comparison with former President Barack Obama, a brilliant law scholar and former senator. Now, that is laughable.

Then Measday begs us to let Trump get his feet beneath him and asks for some courtesy for him. How can anyone with good conscience get behind a liar?

Measday says there is no law requiring Trump to release his tax returns. Well, Trump’s excuse was that he couldn’t under audit, which was a lie. He then said he would release the returns, which was another lie. Trump will release them when the special prosecutor gets done with him.

The writer, like many other Trump voters, keeps making lame excuses for him and why they voted for him. But the damage is done, and they need to own up to it.

Don Ellis, Henderson

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Just who erred at the Sun and let Mike Measday’s letter to the editor actually run? He (or she) is now probably looking for a job!

Measday wrote the words that scores of what we Donald Trump supporters know to be the case: We did not want another tired old leftist politician directing our every thought, our every action with politically correct nonsense! We also didn’t want the usual suspect from the right showing no guts when it came to actually bucking the good-old-boy system, and that’s why 16 other candidates were vanquished by Trump in the primaries.

The truth of the matter is we didn’t want any craven politician sitting in the Oval Office doing the same old thing over and over — fiddling while Washington, D.C., burned and we were ignored.

I can only hope that “outsiders” are paying attention and will, in droves, rise up to challenge the insipid drones (Republican and Democrat) in Washington, and put themselves out there in the primaries as alternatives. We need men and women of honesty and integrity to represent us in government — something sorely lacking in the majority of those now in office.

Jerry Fink, Las Vegas

Editor’s note:

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I like the fact that this man took time out to do a research and soul search before voting. He is to be commended for his effort.

Just one more area to be covered for Mike Measday: Are you satisfied with your choice after six months? No need to reply to me.

Ask yourself. Take a pat on the back no matter which way you answer. You did do some thinking before casting your vote, and that is better than a vote for petty stuff.

Having voted for the last 63 years, I have had the option of the BEST of two and not only the lesser of two evils. Only in America. Bob Hartman, Las Vegas

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I read through Mike Measday’s long and torturous explanation of why he voted for Donald Trump.

Turning from one negative thought to another, by the time I reached the end I was beginning to feel sorry for Measday. Then, I realized, I just couldn’t muster any sympathy for a person who thinks that someone who spent his adult life running a family-owned real estate business where he immediately got what he wanted or people got fired or sued would be any good at running a government where there are some

535 members of Congress he must work with who all think they can do a better job than him at being president.

To make my voting decision, I flipped it around and looked at the positive. In researching for the good that both candidates had done in their past, I found a lengthy list of what Hillary had done over her lifetime as an attorney, first lady, senator and secretary of state where she made things better for other people. I was unable to find one thing that Trump has ever done that benefited anyone except himself. As with Measday, it was the easiest choice in the world for me.

Charles Parrish, Las Vegas