Ambrose victim of Trump derangement?

Re: “The fraud of accusing the former president of fraud,” March 31 commentary

What a ridiculous article we got from Jay Ambrose! Trump filed deliberately false financial documents, in violation of New

York law, and still Ambrose complains when Trump is held accountable for his actions. It’s like if someone does 90 mph in a 30 mph zone and when they get ticketed for it they say that “everybody does it, so I shouldn’t get a ticket unless they all do”. What you really mean is that all other cheats should be fined as well, and that sounds like a great idea. Oh, and about the size of the penalty, I say “don’t do the crime if you can’t pay the fine!”

The writer goes on to bring up many of the other tired Republican cliches about how Trump is the victim here and that it’s political bias to indict him on so many charges. Ridiculous!

In fact, Trump is arguably the biggest crook of our time and has committed many more crimes that he has not been charged with. But if you believe that Trump is innocent of the charges then wouldn’t you expect him to want to appear in court to clear his name? Instead, he is doing everything possible to delay going to trial even though it is costing his supporters millions in legal fees (as you know, Trump claims to be rich but doesn’t use his own money to pay his bills). You have to admit that nothing about his behavior says that he is innocent.

In the end, Jay Ambrose is just another victim of the Trump scams.

— Don Iverson, Louisville

Poor Donald Trump, persecuted for being rich. Trump is a victim of a “victimless ” crime. He made money, the banks money, everybody’s happy! Except he made money on tax fraud, and taxpayers are the victims. Is inside trading a victimless crime? No. Is bribery a victimless crime? No. How about blackmail? No, no and no. Ask Trump’s associates, Allen Weisselberg and Michael Cohen, what they say about tax fraud and lying while covering the tracks of Trump and company. They got jail while Trump is the Republican champion for president, again.

— Victoria Swearingen, Denver

Of course, Jay Ambrose is entitled to his opinion, no matter how filled with error, disinformation, and willing ignorance of factual evidence to the contrary. Some examples:

• The fact that “there are bad things in the world, besides Trump” is a poor excuse for minimizing his immoral, malevolent, dictatorial and likely illegal behavior.

• Ambrose conveniently forgets or ignores the fact that Trump’s indictments were determined by grand jury determinations of “probable cause” — not Democrats, Joe Biden, the judicial branch, or the so-called “deep state.”

These are two of the most egregious examples of Ambrose’s rantings. The fact that he supplies no factual evidence to validate his further claims is boringly typical of the Trump cult.

Hopefully, readers will recognize that Ambrose writes opinions. He is not a fact-reporting journalist in this instance. And these are my opinions, as well.

— William Scott Taylor, Erie