Trump’s special master

Regarding “Editorial: Why did Trump get his way on a special master to review FBI raid documents?,” (Sept. 6): Your editorial in the Wednesday edition totally missed the key issue. Judge Cannon was 100 percent correct in her ruling for one simple but important reason. The Biden administration’s Department of Justice and FBI cannot be trusted to conduct a fair evaluation of the seized materials. It is obvious that the overly broad search warrant and raid were a pretext in support of an administration-backed effort to find a way to indict Trump prior to the midterms. The judge’s ruling may have thrown a wrench into their timetable, but have no fear, their efforts to damage Trump politically will continue well into 2024.

Jon Elmendorf, Houston

So, a Trump-appointed judge in Trump’s pocket was the one who said to appoint a special master? Come on, now — how tainted can you get? Any and all judges, representatives, congressmen, people on the street who have any connection to Trump should be recused from submitting any opinion of consequence on this, at all! This is a travesty of law and order, engineered by the guilty party who is desperately trying to buy time and does not want to suffer any consequences for doing what he did. Isn’t there some totally unbiased person in some sort of power somewhere, who can throw this ruling out? Makes you wonder if the whole years of that presidency — and probably before and, of course, since — more time was spent digging up the tiniest dirt on everyone, to be used later as collateral for favors and blackmail, than any governmental duties.

Rusti Stover, Houston