It shouldn’t need to be said, but obviously his worshipful believers need to hear it: Just because Trump says something doesn’t mean it’s true. He makes rash and hateful claims, but rarely, if ever, makes the case for them. That is, he doesn’t state any hard facts from reliable sources to substantiate them. Instead, he shifts the focus, denouncing and even demonizing the persons or groups that resist him.
Case in point: His claim — his verdict — that Chicago and our wider area is a “hellhole.” And, like other blue cities and states, we must be punished with funding and job cuts that are illegal, even unconstitutional while Congress sits mute. So National Guard troops, neighbors and friends taken off their jobs and taken from their families, are “federalized,” contrary once again to law.
His minions call protesters in Broadview and elsewhere “rioters.” This from the man who did nothing while the mob he incited stormed and broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and who called them “patriots” and pardoned them, even for acts that caused injuries and even death for Capitol police.
No call for National Guard troops then.
It sounds like Mark Twain (but wasn’t) who said: “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” MAGA believers’ pride is invested in him, so they turn a blind eye to his multiple impeachable crimes. Will they ever see the light?
Fred Reklau
Oak Park
