President fails to get relief for Americans

President Donald Trump failed in COVID-19 negotiations to get relief to working families. He walked away from congressional negotiations like a child. By extension, he walked away from the American people. Families will be left in desperation.

He wants to wait until after the presidential election to manipulate legislators with any leverage he’ll have left. So much for being a deal-maker. If you want true deal-makers — people who will fight for you — vote for Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris. They won’t walk away.

Henry J.H. Wilson

Barrington, Ill.

Trump did his best to present himself as a figure of strength after returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was hospitalized with complications related to COVID-19.

As Trump flexes his presidential muscles, multiple people within his orbit have tested positive. Trump may try to look strong, but his White House looks incompetent and weak. Trump was elected to protect Americans, but he neither has the discipline nor the skill to protect himself or those closest to him.

Earlier this year, Trump designated himself as “a wartime president,” and he regarded the coronavirus as an “invisible enemy.” Those words make Trump the first president in U.S. history to be hospitalized or “captured” by the enemy.

America owes it to the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona, POWs and U.S. veterans to vote with Trump’s despicable words in mind: “I like people who weren’t captured.”

Tim Bradley

St. Augustine, Fla.

The Trump carnival of denial continues as coronavirus contagion engulfs the president, first lady and many of his staff members.

When fallacious groupthink becomes an encompassing delusion, dangerous ignorance has won the day. Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati