John S. Hancock penned his latest letter to the Monitor (Letters, May 29) with his ideological blinders clearly affixed to his head.
Obama rolled out the red carpet in August 2014 for Guinea’s Teodora Nguema, Gambian president Yahya Jammeh and Cameroon’s Paul Biya at the White House. All are on the top 20 list of heinous dictators who have murdered their own people to seize power.
Hancock overlooked the relationship between Obama and Honduran president Manuel Zelaya declaring him the “legally elected” president after he attempted a power grab to install himself as a Chavez-like perpetual president.
Hancock and other similar thinking progressives forget about Obama’s support for the terrorist-funding Muslim Brotherhood and his foreign policy missteps in Libya, Egypt, Turkey and Cuba.
The Castro brothers murdered thousands of Cubans by firing squad, sent political opponents to forced labor camps, repressed religious freedom, stole land and restricted freedom of movement – just a few of the regime’s human rights violations.
Hancock is worried about Trump’s embrace of dictators? Nice repeated talking points, but it is simply more hate-filled hyperbole from the progressive playbook.
Hancock’s concern about William Barr being considered by Trump as his own “personal lawyer” ignores the “fact” that Eric Holder considered himself Obama’s “wingman.” Holder was also held in contempt of Congress by Republicans for refusing to turn over documents to the majority Oversight Committee.
As with other progressive letter writers, Hancock’s hatred for Trump shadows and obscures reality.
BILL BUNKER
Barnstead