Letters to the Editor
How one — anyone could be that irresponsible?
Last September President Biden was asked during a “60 Minutes” interview about classified documents found in Former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. His response was “How that could possibly happen? How one — anyone could be that irresponsible?”
In doing so, Biden took the bait. He tried to make a political mountain out of a practical molehill. Those words have now come back to haunt him. Over the past few months several documents have been found in multiple locations that Biden appears to have mishandled. The latest were found by the FBI during a 13 hour search of his residence on Friday.
“How that could possibly happen? How one — anyone could be that irresponsible?”
The truth is that probably many other former Presidents, V.P., or other government officials have also failed to return items, either intentionally or due simply to sloppiness. Trump stated as much on social media recently when he called some of the items in his possession “cool keepsakes”.
A lot of people were exited at the thought of Trump finally being convicted of a crime. Many are sure that he has done much worse. This was just supposed to be the easiest to prove – a “slam-dunk” as the saying goes. Many compared it to Al Capone’s conviction on tax evasion, an easy way to a criminal conviction.
But going after “low-hanging fruit” does nothing but cheapen and politicize the judicial process. The end goal seems to be to prevent Trump from running for president again. This is not to true justice. It’s political gamesmanship. True justice would ignore the molehills and concentrate on the mountains.
In Trump’s case that would be accusations regarding the January 6th insurrection, fake electors, and unauthorized voting machine audits. People have already been convicted of seditious conspiracy, a 20 year felony.
In Biden’s case it would be accusations that involve his son Hunter who faces his own investigation. Were any of the documents actually in Hunter’s hands? Is this connected to our involvement in Ukraine? Was someone bribed or blackmailed?
These are crimes that matter. They are threats to our safety, our democracy, to America itself.
Randall RousseloRoscommon
Thank you to all the first responders
A few weeks back, my carbon monoxide alarm went off and my wife said to call 911; it was pretty late in the evening but I dialed 911, my first time ever, and it was on myself!
I want to express gratitude for the crew coming out and figuring out how I was trying to accidentally poison myself: I had plugged a battery charger onto a battery downstairs, just to warm it up, and then forgot about it. Well, the gas produced was thick, so much so that the hydrogen sulfide, I think, had deadened my ability to smell the gas.
Those guys detected the smell right away and their gas detector directed them right to the back room and the charging battery as the source. Dangerous Sulfur dioxide gas was probably building up in the house, too.
I really appreciate their professionalism and haste; they saved me from accidentally poisoning myself. Good job!
Steven J. DowningCheboygan
This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Letters to the Editor: How one — anyone could be that irresponsible?
