To the editor: On Dec. 17, the president claimed in an handle to the nation that he “fights for the law-abiding, hard-working folks of our nation. Those who make this nation run, who make this nation work.”
He positive has a humorous method of exhibiting it: releasing from jail a convicted fraudster who swindled thousands and thousands of {dollars} from these very hard-working People (“‘Betrayed’: Buyers grapple with Trump commuting sentence of man who defrauded them,” Dec. 18). Pardoning the previous president of Honduras, convicted of drug trafficking and associated weapons offenses. Pardoning a whole lot of Jan. 6, 2021, rioters who stormed our nation’s capital in an try to overthrow an election. And pardoning or commuting the sentences of numerous different convicted criminals and fraudsters.
It jogs my memory of the outdated proverb, “Birds of a feather flock collectively.”
Bob Kahn, Pacific Palisades
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To the editor: The true shock right here is that a few of these traders have been shocked. Have been they not conscious of how low our president can stoop?
Commuting the sentence of a person who was convicted of defrauding hard-working folks out of greater than $1 billion looks as if simply one other extraordinary day at this White Home. I perceive the grief of those victims, however undoubtedly not their shock.
Linda Cooper, Studio Metropolis
