Can’t keep excusing it

Well, Mr. Trump will avoid indictment from the Mueller investigation (at least while he’s in office), but his scandalous behavior as president should concern and sadden every American.

I can’t understand how anyone who is objective, unbiased and of average intelligence could believe that Mr. Trump is honest or trustworthy, or that he puts the nation’s interests before his personal welfare.

The admonition of former White House Counsel John Dean to President Nixon during the Watergate scandal bears repeating: “We have a cancer within—close to the presidency— that’s growing …”. Based on the information and the facts contained in the Mueller report, I believe Mr. Trump is the cancer.

As chancellor of Germany in the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler garnered public favor and support with legislation and actions that were seen as good for Germany, but gradually he and his cohorts—particularly Joseph Goebbels, his Reich minister of propaganda— were able to deceive a large portion of the German public into believing that he had the country’s interests foremost; and in the process of assimilation of complete control, he caused the ultimate destruction of Germany.

Why some of our citizens excuse or ignore Mr. Trump’s lies and narcissistic acts because “he has done some good things for the country” doesn’t make sense. He has divided our country and our politics to the point where it is difficult to understand how we can again come together as a United States of America. TOM DRAPER Little Rock