OPINION:
Kudos to former President Donald Trump, who, unlike former President George W. Bush, is suing his political tormentors for creating the false “Russia collusion” narrative that forced him to accrue unnecessary legal bills to the tune of $24 million (“Trump sues Clinton for false claims on Russia,” Page 1, March 25).
For some reason, people have failed to make the connection between this story and the efforts by the Democrats and their media accomplices during the 2000s to make people believe Bush “lied us into war.” It’s clear as day to me that this endless barrage of lying and political dirty tricks became the Democrats’ template. It spawned the Russia-collusion hoax of the 2010s, which clearly affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
What really boils my blood is that I keep hearing people justify their vote for President Biden by saying they just wanted the “chaos” and the “Trump circus” to end. So they vote for and effectively rewarded the party that created all the chaos in the first place? The party that gave us taxpayer-dollar-wasting, bogus impeachments and reverted a booming economy back to the malaise of the 1970s misery index? These people are a special kind of stupid.
As I see it, a $24 million penalty to the conspirators who perpetrated this criminal fraud not just on Mr. Trump, but on all Americans who now suffer the consequences, is far too lenient. The true cost, which includes an open border, will ultimately be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, New York
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