To the Editor:

You keep saying you forgive Trump for Ukraine because you are so supportive of his domestic agenda.

I’m puzzled.

Is it because he fired thousands of hard-working, dedicated federal workers? The ones who keep our food safe? Who protect
against disease? Who support our seniors when they need help with their social security? Who support our local schools? Who
track weather?

Is it because he’s exposed our private data—tax information, social security information—to an unvetted, foreign-born man
with strong ties to China? A man who has given access to known hackers?

Is it because he thumbs his nose at the courts? Disregards our laws? Because he’s shredding the protections of our
constitution?

Is it because he sends aliens, 75% of whom have broken no laws, to a prison so brutal that it would be illegal in the US?

Without due process? Even when he admits a man was deported in error, he has no intention of returning him to his wife and
children? And now he’s done that, he’s looking to send our own citizens there?

Is it because foreign students who come to our universities are now afraid to be here? Whose home counties are issuing
travel alerts to their citizens who might be thinking of vacationing here?

Is it because he’s so destabilized the world economy that other countries no longer look to us as the gold standard?
Because he’s thrown our markets into chaos?

Please explain what he’s doing that makes you so dedicated to him. I am puzzled.

Pat Collins,

Fillmore, Ca.