Trump’s enablers
Delores Hudlett
Germantown
Let’s never repeat Jan. 6
Who could have seen it coming (“Insurrection,” Jan. 7)?
How could we have prepared for any violent attack on our democracy when all we had to go on was six months of protests, arrests of an armed militia who planned to kidnap a sitting governor, and 60 failed court cases claiming election fraud? Those court cases were determined by both liberal and conservative judges, some appointed by the man claiming the fraud. That man, the president of the United States, incited a mob of armed protesters to stop a constitutional process in the most revered hall of democracy in the entire world, the U.S. Capitol.
But maybe there is a silver lining. At least most of the president’s GOP enablers finally recognized the danger of blindly supporting his rantings and baseless claims.
And maybe we’ve also learned that
As a retired Army colonel, I am sickened, disgusted and ashamed of the actions of enablers of President Donald Trump.
One can blame Trump all they want, but the enablers over the past four years are just as culpable for the actions of insurrection, sedition and treason that occurred on Jan. 6. They have failed to call him out because of their own personal aspirations for power as opposed to upholding the oath they swore.
I took that same oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. We are not beholden to a person, but to our Constitution.
I specifically call out the recent acts of U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany and Sen. Ron Johnson who are more concerned with spreading baseless election conspiracy theories and lies to support their political base. They are enablers. I blame them, in addition to Trump, for what Trump instigated over the past four to five years since he
Milwaukee
A disturbing Blake decision
I was hoping, at the very least, for a “use of excessive force” charge against the Kenosha officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times (“No charges in Blake shooting,” Jan. 6).
How can shooting a person in the back be justified when Blake had his back to the officer trying to get into his car? Why isn’t there accountability for officers who use “deadly or excessive force?” Not every situation officers face can be taught in training, but don’t officers have the duty to use discretion, common sense and good judgment?
Now Blake is paralyzed because three officers on the scene couldn’t control the situation without using deadly force. Maybe the officer will resign, realizing
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