To the Editor:
I appreciate the concern for society’s moral condition — but moral diagnosis can’t substitute for factual accountability. Before we ask what’s wrong with humanity, we might first ask: what’s really happening with this slush fund—or whatever the grift de jure--and who’s paying for it?
I also wonder how my neighbors feel. Would our tax dollars be better spent on Fillmore’s schools, healthcare, roads, fire prevention — or left in our own pockets for when we fill our gas tanks?
Faith and facts aren’t enemies. But one doesn’t replace the other. And one grift does not excuse another.
Pat Collins,
Fillmore, Ca
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To the Editor:
The more that’s exposed of the left’s Cloward Piven Strategy and Color Revolution tactics the uglier and more violent they are becoming. That’s a fact. All you hear from their politicians, trying to stay or obtain power is “ I hate Trump, so vote for me”. Pathetic! Have you heard one peep about the billions in fraud? Of course not, it’s the ignore it and it will go away tactic. There is now an advertising push for Foodstamps/SNAP benefits and how much they are needed. Cloward Piven Strategy grift is still alive. There is so much being stolen by nonprofits, politicians and bureaucrat grifters on both sides (RINO’s), but the majority is by the Marxists left. They want power at any cost, yet claim they are there to protect “Democracy” while destroying our Republic. Today it’s a Red-Green alliance. By now you should know who is behind the curtain: Code Pink, ANSWER Coalition. NGO’s, ANTIFA etc along with our Education Department, Media, Hollywood. Funded by foreign billionaire globalists. Yet all their useful idiots to the TDS cult, can say, “I hate Trump”. Think about the years they had to destroy or hide their fraud. Yet they couldn’t get all of it. Biden’s Autopen had a fix for that.
I love that we finally have someone in the White House that has a backbone and a pair of steel sets willing to push back. FINALLY!!!!. The corrupt sick TDS group just never thought they’d get caught. An artificial platform performed by imitation people is hard to keep up or hidden, but there’s always “I hate Trump, vote for me”.
The most valuable things in life are the hardest to obtain. So, the left condones stealing from the other to even out the equity. Our ancestors had the grit and worked hard. They knew they were not entitled to take ill-gotten gains. We could trust and be trusted, Not today!!! Social engineering using race, sex, hate and victimhood has given far too many useful idiots a feeling of entitlement to others labor and very lazy. I’d like to go back to a society that believed they are better than that with the grit to achieve and responsible for a society that everyone trusts.
Jean McLeod,
Fillmore, Ca
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To the Editor:
In last week’s LTTE, I accommodated your request to raise only one subject. I chose Trump’s $1.8-billion Weaponization Fund Scam, a current and essential issue debated on all news websites and programs. If the Editor can select the number of topics in a LTTE, as well as the actual subject, the LTTE becomes an “assignment.” For me, those days are over. There is no need for me to discuss the Cuba situation this week, as you cherry-picked it fairly thoroughly in last week’s deflective and diversionary non-response.
To wrap up for now the Slush Fund issue, beyond last week’s discussion, be aware that the FL judge has reasserted jurisdiction on the grounds that Acting Attorney General Blanche (“AAG”) may have colluded with Trump to represent fraudulent facts to the court in the dismissal (and subsequent Weaponization Agreement). The judge has put a hold on the transfer of Treasury funds to Trump’s committee and set a hearing for June 12. Here are just a few arguments against the Fund transfer (there are more):
Article I of the Constitution assigns to Congress the passing of laws and appropriation of money. It does not authorize the AAG to appropriate money, certainly not for the benefit of the president to whom he reports and owes his job. And “loves.”
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution prohibits the president from receiving any emolument (profit) from the United States or any state, other than a fixed salary.
The two-year Statute of Limitations had expired months before Trump’s lawsuit was filed in January 2026, so the leak issue was moot. The AAG had represented to the court that there was a required case or controversy between the president and the DOJ as to IRS liability, but asked for and received a judicial dismissal, so end of story.
Not so fast. Clearly, Trump and the AAG colluded to withdraw his IRS case from judicial review to enter into a separate, private, unreviewable “settlement” with AAG Blanche, though there was nothing to settle. This sub-rosa Fund would simply be a gift of our tax dollars from the AAG to Trump, and beyond the reach of the court (they thought). It is yet another window on what Trump truly thinks of the Constitution, statutory Law, and the American taxpayer.
The 14th Amendment, Section 4, provides that, “Neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.” It is as relevant as it was after the Civil War.
There is no basis to make the gift to Trump a tax-free transaction. Trump would almost certainly have to pay taxes on the $1.8 billion. The fact that he might make the insurrectionists subsequent beneficiaries does not relieve him of that tax burden. CA and other states are considering taxing any award from the Fund at 100% because of the illegality.
The most shocking provision, the fact that the Weaponization Fund Agreement also relieves the Trump Family of any future prosecution for tax fraud to date, ought to scream to you about Trump’s self-serving lack of ethics. But then, this is just “Trump being Trump.”
If you decide to continue with your discussion of Cuba, Martin, I hope you include the context of all the other military absurdities Trump has undertaken, and the way he has done it. For instance, our abandonment of Ukraine, while we arrogantly threaten and voluntarily attack other countries. For the respectful reaction of the Danish Parliament when Trump threatened to take Greenland, see They are laughing #trump .
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca