OPINION:
I was amazed by the media circus surrounding former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in lower Manhattan (“Trump defies onslaught of legal attacks: ’A persecution, not an investigation,’” web, April 4).
One would think he’d been charged with “lying us into war to enrich his friends” a la George W. Bush (an egregious charge that somehow fell off the radar the day Mr. Bush left office). This only makes one wonder about the validity of the current charges against Mr. Trump.
One of the things that caught my eye in news photos were the simulated Trump mug shot T-shirts that depict Mr. Trump behind bars. The price tag? A mere $47 — presumably to raise cash for Mr. Trump’s run at becoming the 47th president.
Mr. Trump has a long history of turning negatives into positives and making people who dance on his grave later eat crow. My instincts tell me that this T-shirt is the opening salvo in Mr. Trump’s battle against the radical left for the soul of America.
But Mr. Trump needs to take it a step further. After accomplishing the greatest comeback in American business history with the inspiring catchphrase that he coined back in the early ’90s, “Survive ’Til ’95,” Mr. Trump is now perfectly set up for the greatest political comeback using the updated phrase “Survive ’Til ‘25.” With a whole new product line using this slogan, his 74 million MAGA voters — who are suffering under President Biden and enraged beyond words — will surely help him generate billions to catapult him back into the White House.
There can be no more “Trumpian” justice than that.
EUGENE R. DUNN
Medford, New York
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