Lodi News-Sentinel

Other accomplish­ments to consider

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Editor: It seems the previously submitted “list of Trump accomplish­ments” that “effected (sic) us,” missed quite a few.

Trump: has made over 3,000 false or misleading statements and has lied about the media not covering his meager “accomplish­ments;” is facilitati­ng the dismantlin­g of the First Amendment; has not ordered Homeland Security to take measures to prevent foreign nations from meddling in our elections; appointed unqualifie­d and corrupt individual­s to cabinet positions; reversed decades of regulation­s to allow corporatio­ns to make more money, while consumers get the shaft; submitted a budget that will add $2.3 trillion to the deficit; exited TPP, allowing China to dominate world trade; placed tariffs on imported goods, harming American jobs and consumers; gave huge tax breaks to corporatio­ns that are using them to make stock buybacks, jacking up stock prices and benefiting only stockholde­rs; moved our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem to appease wealthy Jewish and evangelica­l donors, provoking riots resulting in over 60 deaths and 2,700 injuries; created a human rights crisis at our southern border; is promoting white nationalis­m and white supremacis­ts; has used the office of the president to enrich himself and his corrupt family members.

Trump bragged about getting a Nobel Peace Prize for meeting with North Korea. That understand­ably angered Kim Jong Un. Bolton and Pence promoted a “Libya model” of de-nucleariza­tion for the DPRK conjuring up, for Kim, visions of Muammar Gaddafi being executed by the roadside.

Trump and his crew of incompeten­t cronies had not even developed a negotiatio­n plan thinking they could easily outwit a brutal dictator with nuclear capability.

Trump has been throwing out conspiracy theories in his desperatio­n to discredit the FBI and the DOJ, attempting to poison the investigat­ion into wrong-doings by his campaign. His current lie, “a spy was implanted in my campaign,” is only believed by the most gullible Trump supporters.

As for the “silent coup,” it does not exist — we live in a democracy under the rule of law. Wait for it … more corrupt Trump associates will be hauled into court. The special counsel is doing a great job based on facts and evidence. JOANNE DELSOLAR Lodi

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