When people face a serious illness, they need valid information from a health care professional. The same is true for nations. People need the truth from their leaders to understand the severity of their condition and to take prudent precautions for combating the disease. To withhold or distort this information is malpractice of the highest order.
The oath doctors take requires them to do no harm. Presidents take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States against enemies both foreign and domestic.
The current incumbent has failed this basic obligation. The handling of the coronavirus is just the most recent example of betrayal of his oath. Failure to confront foreign adversaries such as Vladimir Putin is another. It is his assault against American institutions and values that should concern us the most.
After diminishing the roles of Congress, the Justice Department, and the intelligence community, Trump has taken aim at the U.S. Postal Service. He threatens the post office from keeping its appointed rounds, which in turn threatens the sanctity of our most sacred institution: open and free elections.
Threatening to do harm should be taken as seriously as the harm itself. It should be resisted on both sides of the aisle and by the American people, irrespective of political affiliation.
FRANK WARMAN
Hopkinton