Twitter users can help cancel Potus’ account

Trump said some illegal immigrants are rapists

Re: “Serial rape suspect who posed as ride-share driver arrested” (Page B3, July 14):

Remember when candidate Trump said some Illegal immigrants were rapists? Orlando Vilchez Lazo is an Illegal (he’s a Peruvian citizen) and a former Lyft driver arrested last week under suspicion of raping four women. Lazo is accused of cruising San Francisco bar areas, picking up women waiting for Uber or Lyft rides, and forcibly raping them with a knife when they passed out drunk.

One victim woke up with blood on her hands afterward. Imagine your wife or daughter forcibly raped with a knife after Uber or Lyft was called to safely take her home but the driver who picked her up was instead a rapist — and then discover he was here illegally.

ICE placed a detainer or hold on Lazo ,which San Francisco refuses to honor because it is a sanctuary city. This means sanctuary cities (and California as sanctuary state) care more for Illegal immigrants accused of rape than U.S. citizens.

Democrats create these “sanctuaries for Illegals” because they crave Hispanic votes, which I think is traitorous conduct.

— Mike Brown, Burlingame

Putin’s likely strategy for steering next US elections

If you think that Trump will be blundering into an Oval Office meeting with Putin just before the midterms, and that it will supercharge a “Blue Wave” in November, think again.

Putin is not stupid. Make no mistake. He doesn’t want the House or Senate to flip Democratic and risk diminishing Trump’s power. There are at least two strategies for accomplishing this at the meeting: 1. Make Trump and his party look really strong. 2. Create a chilling threat situation that compels voters to not risk creating any political instability by tilting legislative balance. For dramatic impact, the carefully orchestrated meeting will likely take place in public view. — Barry Bronson, Saratoga

Commit part of Shoreline to low-income housing

Growing up in Palo Alto, I owned and boarded horses in Mountain View, in the area which is now Shoreline Park.

The park was built on top of the garbage dump, but also on top of large areas of land which used to be horse ranches for people like me who lived in the suburbs, for low-income housing, mostly occupied by Portuguese people, and for a farmer’s field.

Mountain View’s city government at the time could have built the park on just the garbage dump, but choose to wipe out the entire neighborhood instead, displacing low-income people and horses, who met an unknown fate. Since we now know that low-income housing is needed here in the valley, Mountain View should commit portions of Shoreline Park to be restored into low-income housing. It would be the right thing to do. — Sandra Winkler, Redwood City I believe in the First Amendment. However, it is in the national interest for Twitter to cancel Potus’ account. That is, unless you believe that the Potus tweets are building the case for obstruction of justice and collusion, which seems so apparent from them and his actions.

Twitter users should delete their accounts to pressure Twitter to do the right thing. Preserve our democracy and the American way of life. — Bob Sutis, Los Altos

Trump finds Cohen search inconceivable?

Amazing Donald!! He tweets “Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) — almost unheard of.”

I wonder what he thinks happens in Putin’s Russia. They get poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in the UK!! Wow!! — Mohan Aiyagari, San Jose

His election to the office still more inconceivable

Trump angrily tweets out that it’s inconceivable that Cohen would tape their conversation regarding the Karen McDougal hush money.

Yet, the guy who shells out hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover up numerous affairs and who on tape brags about being a sexual predator still gets elected president of the United States…now to me that’s inconceivable! — Robert Parker, San Jose