Letters: Proud of Penn State wrestling; Trump is a danger to our country

Proud of Penn State wrestling

A dynasty at Penn State. Congratulations to the Penn State wrestling team for winning another NCAA title. This is the most successful team in Penn State history and in NCAA history. No other team has done what this team had accomplished.

Job well done. We are Penn State.

Trump is a danger to our country

Although many voters are focused on Joe Biden’s abilities, it’s Donald Trump we should worry about. His speeches are increasingly marked by garbled language and slurred speech, mental confusion and blunders — and all the lies.

Over the past few months, Trump:

• Mistook Argentina for a person, calling MAGA the “greatest movement…maybe in the history of any country, even Argentina. You know, Argentina, great guy. He’s a big Trump guy. I love him because he loves Trump.”
• Stated that immigrants crossing the U.S. Mexico border “don’t speak languages.”
• Claimed he’d stop banks from “debanking” Americans
• Mixed up former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with his only rival in the Republican race at the time, former Governor Nikki Haley — and claimed that Haley was in charge of security on January 6 (neither Pelosi nor Haley was).
• Described his plan for America’s missile defense system: “Ding, ding, Ding, Ding, ding, ding, … Boom. OK Missile launch. Woosh. Boom.”
• Claimed Biden could “plunge the world into WWII,” which ended nearly 80 years ago.
• Confused former Florida Governor Jeb Bush with former President George Bush, and couldn’t articulate the latter’s military actions. “When I came here, everyone thought Bush was going to win … They thought Bush because Bush supposedly was a military person … he got us into the, uh, Middle East. How did that work out, right?”

Trump is a danger to our country. He has limited knowledge of the world and can’t articulate the little he does know.

Trust those who know

There have always been voters registered as Party A who vote for presidential candidates nominated by Party B. We remember “Democrats for Reagan” in 1980, “Republicans for Clinton” in 2016, and “Republicans for Biden” in 2020. The Lincoln Project, made up mostly of Republicans, was strongly supportive of the Democratic candidate in 2016 and 2020.

Now, in 2024, we have a new group: “Republicans (Who Worked for Trump) for Biden.” It is one thing to have current (or former) Republicans, such as Michael Steele, Stuart Stevens, Steve Schmidt, and many others, voice their opposition to the candidacy of Donald Trump, but when this includes actual members of the Trump Administration we should sit up and take notice.

Mark Esper, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, has said, “I regard him as a threat to democracy.”

General John Kelly, Trump’s Chief of Staff, referred to him as “the most flawed individual I have ever met.”

Bill Barr, Trump’s Attorney General, testified to the House January 6 Committee, “Donald Trump should not be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office ever again.”

Chris Christie, who endorsed Trump in the 2016 election and served as Chairperson of his transition team, now calls Trump “unfit to be President.”

Perhaps Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first Secretary of State, said it best: “He’s a (expletive) moron!”

It would be helpful if these people, who really know him, would publicly speak out more frequently, and we voters should be influenced by them.