Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and their militarist allies in Japan brought about the most cataclysmic conflagration in human history, killing as many as 85 million people. Despite Michael Moffett’s recognition of the “Nazi menace” (Sunday Monitor Forum, Dec. 22), he apparently has no problem with Donald J. Trump embracing neo-fascist regimes, particularly Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Viktor Orban’s Hungary.
Trump admits to believing the Russian intelligence service, buying into their notoriously discredited conspiracy theory seeking to absolve Russia from responsibility for intervening in America’s 2016 presidential election through attempting to scapegoat Ukraine, a country that angered Putin by overthrowing his puppet Viktor Yanukovych. Joining Putin and Orban in spinning this web of deception ensnaring the “useful idiot” Trump is Rudy Giuliani, who’s reportedly under criminal investigation. He’s no Harry Hopkins.
Moffett’s distortions abound. Mueller revealed a plethora of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Trump’s back channels undermined instead of supported American diplomacy, and no Republican Convention convening two days after the surrender of France to Hitler’s invading armies was going to nominate an isolationist. Trump believes that he’s above the law, but the people are wise to Trump’s betrayal of American interests, values and to his extensive criminality.
This includes Trump’s obstruction of justice, abuse of power, taking payola from foreign governments, unconstitutionally stonewalling Congress and making illegal payments to his mistresses. For Trump’s cultists, there’s nothing this criminal demagogue could ever do to warrant his impeachment. But if the U.S. Senate fails to remove him, the electorate will – for the preservation of the rule of law, democratic governance and the American way of life.
JOHN S. HANCOCK
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