Opinion | A ‘Rubicon Moment’ for Donald Trump
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Thrives in a Damaged System. He’ll Get Us There Quickly,” by Thomas L. Friedman (column, June 14):
Mr. Friedman is precisely proper. We’re approaching a most harmful second. Donald Trump will lastly be tried in a federal court docket of regulation after being indicted. His lifetime of avoiding comeuppance for outrageous conduct is over.
We’ve got to imagine that no one — no one which means even an ex-president and doable future president — is above the regulation.
Despite the fact that we are going to belief within the courts to hold out the authorized course of, a really severe monkey wrench has been thrown into the combination. Virtually past perception, Choose Aileen M. Cannon has been randomly chosen to preside over the court docket proceedings.
Based mostly on her unusual and “inventive” rulings in his favor a number of months in the past associated to the F.B.I.’s search of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump has lastly discovered a choose he dare not slander and demean, as he has persistently finished in instances by which he has misplaced.
We should hope that Choose Cannon will rise to a degree that doesn’t favor anybody on this case, and that maybe she has realized from being overturned and severely chastised by a better court docket.
Mr. Trump has arrived at his Rubicon second, and maybe it may very well be his Waterloo as effectively.
Harvey Glassman
Boynton Seashore, Fla.
To the Editor:
I’m in sturdy settlement with Thomas L. Friedman’s conclusion that Donald Trump’s thirst for absolute energy represents “a harmful second” for our nation. And sure, many Republican lawmakers who might have stopped him failed to take action.
However Mr. Friedman didn’t point out the truth that 30 to 40 % of our nation’s residents have been fully brainwashed by Mr. Trump’s and his ardent supporters’ lies and propaganda. And it’s this sizable a part of America that continues to supply the oxygen for Mr. Trump’s burn-it-all-down strategy to acquiring energy.
So long as these Individuals proceed to blindly assist Mr. Trump, he’ll proceed his egocentric path to destruction of America’s democracy. Thus, the query is: How do the remainder of us attempt to persuade Trumpers of the peril that their assist of Mr. Trump poses for our nation? And I’m afraid that that is the crux of the Trump downside.
Michael Hadjiargyrou
Centerport, N.Y.
To the Editor:
Re “Momentous Scene in Miami as Trump Pleads Not Responsible” (entrance web page, June 14):
Former President Donald Trump acquired a bizarrely heat welcome at a Cuban sandwich store he popped into after pleading not responsible in response to the 37-count indictment. Embraces throughout. “Meals for everybody!”
What struck me about Mr. Trump amid this sea of worshiping followers, in addition to in his earlier court docket look in New York Metropolis on hush cash fees: Not one member of the family accompanied him. No spouse placing on a courageous entrance, clutching her husband’s hand, nevertheless mortifying the circumstances, as they entered the courtroom. No daughter and son-in-law, at all times heart stage in White Home photographs and his shut aides for 4 years, standing by his facet.
In contrast to so many Republican politicians who proceed to supply assist to a person whose prison fees develop by the day, his household appears to have had little issue in abandoning him.
Cathy Bernard
New York
To the Editor:
Charging the previous president with espionage is absurd. Decrease the political temperature a bit, please. Our nation is sick sufficient. Simply contemplate Mar-a-Lago Mr. Trump’s presidential library.
Antonia Tamplin
Bronx
To the Editor:
Re “Lock Him Up,” by Bret Stephens (column, June 14):
OMG! I by no means agree with Mr. Stephens, although I take pleasure in his columns. Immediately I agree with him fully and unequivocally.
I too have learn the indictment (I’m a lawyer and a former federal prosecutor). It’s fairly damning. Donald Trump admits that he has secret paperwork and that he has taken many steps to not return these paperwork.
Do we’ve got the rule of regulation in the US? In that case, Mr. Trump should be held accountable, and if discovered responsible, go to jail. That’s the way it works.
Sure, lock him up.
Marc Chafetz
Washington
To the Editor:
Re “The G.O.P. Discipline Faces a Selection: Regulation and Order or Loyalty” (Political Memo, June 12):
It’s not simply Republican candidates who should select. The character of the costs in Donald Trump’s indictment and the detailed details set on the market, coupled with the previous president’s assaults on the particular prosecutor and the Division of Justice, confront all of us with a selection.
The nation is now divided into two camps: those that imagine within the rule of regulation, and people who oppose it. There isn’t any third various.
Jonathan J. Margolis
Brookline, Mass.
Affirmative Motion: Assist or Hindrance?
To the Editor:
“To Perceive Affirmative Motion Debates, Look to the Previous,” by Randall Kennedy (Opinion visitor essay, June 11), is unfair to many people who oppose the present state of affirmative motion as a result of we imagine that it harms the very folks it intends to assist.
The Heart for Equal Alternative has studied the results of preferential therapy in admission of Black and Hispanic college students at some 80 faculties, regulation colleges and medical colleges. These college students have been, in too many instances, set as much as fail.
Black and Hispanic college students admitted with considerably decrease take a look at scores than their white and Asian friends graduated at decrease charges and, in medical colleges, did not cross qualifying exams that may enable them to proceed their medical research.
For instance, analysis by Richard Sander, a U.C.L.A. regulation professor, has proven that there would doubtless be extra Black attorneys if race-neutral admissions utilized in any respect regulation colleges.
In his most up-to-date evaluation, Mr. Sander has proven that Black college students who attended regulation colleges the place their incoming LSAT scores matched these of their white friends have been much more prone to cross the bar after they graduated — even when the colleges they attended have been much less selective.
Artificially inflating faculty admissions charges for Black and brown college students who’re in poor health ready to compete on an equal footing with their white and Asian friends might make faculty directors really feel good, but it surely doesn’t resolve the issues wrought by years of academic neglect and malpractice.
Linda Chavez
Washington
The author is the chair of the Heart for Equal Alternative.
A ‘New’ Beatles Tune
To the Editor:
Re “McCartney Says ‘Final’ Beatles Tune Makes use of A.I.” (Enterprise, June 14):
You report that Mr. McCartney “didn’t give the title of the track or supply any clues about its lyrics.”
Potential titles:
“I Wanna Maintain Your Bandwidth.”
“Don’t Let Me Obtain.”
“Get Backup.”
“Everyone’s Obtained One thing to Cover Besides Me and My Delete Key.”
“A Arduous Drive’s Evening.”
“I Am the Paywall.”
David Jelinek
New York
