Rejecting Trump, his administration, will set an example BORDERLINE

When it was clear, weeks ago, that Joe Biden had won the presidency, I thought he should look past Donald Trump’s many transgressions and look forward to the future. To Biden’s credit, he has ignored Trump’s insane rants and the frivolous Texaslawsuit backed by 17 state attorneys general and a majority of Republicans in the U.S. House that was thrown out by the Supreme Court. And, he has ignored the vicious noise from the radical right.

Biden has every right to hold Trump accountable for putting kids in jails, shredding the Constitution, gutting our institutions, raiding the Treasury for his own profit, obstructing federal investigations, committing fraud, lying more than 25,000 times and debasing our nation’s highest office.

But Trump did something much more egregious than all of this. By demanding that millions of legal votes not be counted, and saying that there was rampant election fraud, which he never proved, he and his confederates, attempted to destroy our democracy. His willful, shameful inability to accept his election loss has driven millions of Americans to believe our democracy is a sham, their votes are worthless and our government is corrupt.

For the next four years, they will say Biden’s administration is illegitimate. Trump will never admit he was beaten. He will play the victim and rake in hundreds of millions from his gullible cult followers. His corrosive actions must be countered and defeated. Only then will future dictator wannabes know they are not, and never will be, above the law or greater than the United States of America.

Our nation is more divided now than any time since Vietnam. Maybe, if the true Trump is revealed, his followers will see the light and return home.

The ill-conceived decision by the city of Miami Commission to hire Bill Galvano to redraw the city voting map will only lead to a waste of taxpayer dollars for his exorbitant fee and the legal bills sure to follow.

Shame on the commissioners for not heeding his past history involving the very same issue.

– Ann Merlin,

Miami