Why the double standards?

President Trump has pardoned convicted drug dealer, Alice Johnson, at the behest of reality TV Personality, Kim Kardashian West. Trump said that everyone makes mistakes, and that if someone takes responsibility and works to improve his or her life while in prison, that person should have a second chance. He also felt that Mrs. Johnson’s incarceration was detrimental to her family. How unique.

And how curious that his sentiments don’t extend to the thousands of people who have come to the United States to improve their lives, and who work hard and grueling, menial, legal jobs (and pay taxes) to do so.

Aren’t sting operations and raids that result in hundreds of deportations, detrimental to the families of these hard-working undocumented immigrants?

How interesting that his sentiments don’t extend to the thousands of children who grew up in this country-believing that they were Americans, and who worked hard in school to build solid, honest futures in the country they love. Isn’t sending these young people to countries with which they are not familiar and whose languages they don’t speak, detrimental to the innocent “Dreamers?”

How perplexing that the melting pot mentality which welcomed my ancestors (in the 18th and 19th centuries) and yours (at whatever point in the past) and which helped to develop this great country, is being crushed by an insecure, unstable, egocentric, bigoted, hate-filled man.

The president’s double standards are disgustingly un American and serve to reinforce the notion that he is unfit for the job. He is the quintessential example of the Peter principle taken to the highest level — worst president ever. Dusty Staudt

Painesville