Lie to the public, lose your elected office; Donald Trump just won't go away: Your Letters

Lie to the public, lose your elected office

Anyone running for office, any office, ask them one simple question: Have you ever knowing lied to the public?

Pass a motion and make this a law. If they are known to have lied to the public, they would not be eligible to hold any elected office. And make this permanent.

Simple.

John Luke Flyinghorse Sr., Wakpala

Making no diagnoses

My initial reaction to Joe Hatch's Aug. 6 letter to the editor that mentioned my name five times was ... thank you! I only wish the letter had been better written.

On a side note, although this is also a response letter, I generally loathe them. Profess your own ideas without the crutch of criticizing other letter writers. For example, how tough would it be to react to Tom Burgard's letter, also of Aug. 6? Yes Tom, Donald Trump golfed while Joe Biden still had the taste of Mohammed bin Salman's posterior on his lips from his oil-begging pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Joe Biden killed a retired terrorist who may as well have been in a nursing home watching Lawrence Welk reruns. Congratulations, Joe, for not killing innocent little children this time. That's just too easy, but I digress.

I'd suggest Mr. Hatch re-read my "Just trying to save lives" letter of Oct. 2, 2021. It made no reference to anything written by Joe Hatch as alleged. My letter involved personal experiences with rotund receptionists and the ineffectiveness of cloth and disposable masks.

It's fascinating that Hatch is critical of my apolitical mask letter, yet later complains "all he ever writes" are anti-Democrat letters. It's as if parts of his letter were written by different people or personalities. Not that I'm diagnosing anything.

Similarly, I made no diagnosis of Joe Biden concerning senility or dementia. Hatch deduced those conditions were likely present since Biden requires written direction to perform even the most basic of tasks.

Contrary to Joe Hatch's contention, Joe Biden serves as an inspiration to millions suffering from senility and dementia. Someday they, too, could be president.

Dan Oliver, Aberdeen

Donald Trump just won't go away

After all he has put this country through, including the un-American and antidemocratic Jan. 6 failed coup, Donald Trump will not go away.

Eleven sets of classified documents were recently found at Mar-a-Lago. Guess Trump still thinks he's above the law. My bad, still thinks he is the law. Did he share the classified info with his dictator buddies in Russia, Turkey and North Korea?

Maybe it is time Donald Trump was put away -- inside a cell inside a cell block inside a prison. Just load up all the clown cars from his scandal-filled mis-administration and dump them off in the prison yard, and American democracy will be less in trouble than it is today.

As for his brainwashed, antidemocratic supporters and apologists who ignore bite -you- on-the-leg facts for asinine conspiracy theories hiding behind every tree only they, mysteriously, can see, there are no remedial fifth-grade social studies classes.

Which means those opposed to democracy will still reap the benefits from living in one, oblivious to the irony. Which also means we will somehow have to regard these people going forward as fellow Americans, even though they are in thrall to someone who is everything but.

Yippee.

Douglass Carter, Aberdeen

This article originally appeared on Aberdeen News: Letter writers focus on Donald Trump, politicians lying to the public