Opinion

Sound Off: July 6, 2024

Sun Herald readers

July 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.·2 min read

Lock him up

Steve Bannon lost his many appeals to stay out of jail for a mere four months at a federal prison. Now he is saying he’s proud to serve and doesn’t regret lying to Congress. These guys don’t want to do the time after committing the crime. A bunch of whimps posing as warriors.

Hush money

It appears that Congress is stopping the practice of paying hush money to claims of sexual discrimination against Congressmen. This has been traditionally paid from a slush fund of tax payers money. Of course those who benefited from the hush money pay off is a closely guarded secret. How is this different from Donald Trump being convicted by testimony of a witness that has been proven to be an habitual liar?

He said it

Donald Trump’s supporters keep saying President Biden’s supporters need to wake up. I think it is the other way around. In the debate, Trump spoke of the wonderful conversation he had with his pal Vladimir Putin. At a campaign event last week, Trump told his supporters to get out and vote. Then said “I don’t care if you vote in four years. I don’t care what happens then, I just need you to vote now.” I heard it with my own ears. He was telling the truth. He doesn’t care what happens to this country in four years.

No escape

Despite many Supreme Court questionable decisions, they got one right, refusing to hear Steve Bannon’s prison appeal. The ex-Donald Trump advisor and earlier Trump-pardoned convict finally reported to jail for other offenses after working the justice system to the furthest extent of special treatment. He escaped earlier jail time for defrauding donors of over a million dollars for Trump’s border wall.

Making things up

Do you really think Jill Biden is power hungry? She has not used her position to her advantage. She is a teacher. You guys are trying to throw anything against the wall you think will stick. Besides, who’s more power hungry than Donald Trump? His own family doesn’t support him.

Nuclear codes

You know who I’m really afraid of having access to the nuclear codes? Donald Trump. He retaliates against anyone who doesn’t say anything nice about him. He’s Vladimir Putin’s buddy and he admires dictators. Past military generals have already expressed concern for judgments while he was in office. He takes classified documents home for God knows what purpose.

Backfire?

The Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity also means President Biden now has immunity for any official-act crime he commits. Let that sink in.

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