Richard Garner’s recent letter warned citizens not to take pleasure in the prosecution of Donald Trump’s self-inflicted legal woes. Why do those who are enamored with an autocrat’s power twist themselves in knots to claim they’re the real victims once the truth comes out? Why their paranoid fixation on retribution?
Maybe cooking the company books, paying a porn star just after his wife delivers their child, attempting a coup, committing sexual assault and stiffing contractors are acceptable in Mr. Garner’sworld. Maybe, like fellow con man Soapy Smith, Mr. Trump is simply misunderstood, and the victim of a horrible miscarriage of justice. More likely, it’s just wrong to break the law, and the way of transgressors is hard.
— Chris Wooley
Big Lake
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