To the Editor:

Martin, first you attributed to me statements I did not make, and then you said that we have a lot in common. I was
positively verklempt! Then, mercifully, I read that you only meant our common educational ties at the hands of the Jesuits,
who did what they do, introduce differing opinions, and raise a lot of questions on God and the human condition.
Apparently, USF was heavily into Inquisition theology and the alarming view of Christ as a vengeful Old Testament Deity.
Many Santa Clara Jebs were not so inclined but believed that human life is ours to experience with the help of faith, hope,
and charity. Just one question, was Constitutional Law included in your law school curriculum?

It is our business as humans to confront our challenges. If God were deeply involved in our day-to-day issues, how do you
explain the Armenian and Gazan genocides, the Holocaust, even the Crusades, Epstein? The creation of the human animal armed
with intelligence and free will was a curiously risky venture, and sometimes people make really bad decisions.
Unfortunately, ignorance is not a defense.

The reason that my accusations against Trump are serial is that his offenses are serial. Like an unloved and disgruntled
child with Big Bird lodged on his head and a nutrition pyramid with one word: “McDonalds,” he visits revenge on little
insults, legitimate questions, every slight he suffers and accusation he faces. These are “national threats,” “treason,”
“enemies of the people,” if they disagree with him, and all are “hoaxes,” “fake news,” and “persecution.” Most adults have
to be big girls and boys. Everything Trump does is “perfect,” which must surprise the Almighty.

I doubt that the sexual victims of Epstein’s elites will ever get the human justice they deserve. You, who justify
retribution genocide in Gaza, dispatch God to take care of the Epstein atrocities without investigation because…?

WH management of the Epstein coverup is textbook Trump. Every “shiny thing” sufficiently dazzling to distract MAGA is being
waved. Now, Obama, Biden and Jill, Kamala Harris, Jack Smith, every civil servant involved in the civil and criminal cases
against him, the juries that convicted him of sexual assault and fraud, the “rogue courts” that defy his legal arguments
(though SCOTUS is in his pocket), his treatment of foreign dignitaries, his incredibly long learning curve with Putin, his
firing of the head of labor statistics because she brought accurate but unwelcome news about July’s unemployment numbers,
the big beautiful bill, the increasing evidence of his dementia. Do you think Trump has the slightest interest in the
welfare of ordinary Americans? No, really, do you?

My reluctant sense is that, until the economy crashes and Trump blames Obama and Biden, and digs up Jimmy Carter to answer
for himself, people will continue to ignore flashing signs like Project 2025 and the Trumpian march to authoritarianism, past the opportunity to object. But good news! That will give you time to fully decipher God’s Will for the rest of us,
ignore the impending damage to the Republic, and polish up your eternal merit badge.

Kelly Scoles,

Fillmore, Ca