The horrifying historic parallel for Trump's mugshot
Letters to the Editor
Aug. 29, 2023
To the editor: Saturday’s letters talked largely about The Instances’ placement of former President Trump’s jail mug shot contained in the paper. The response was, as is so usually the case, 50-50.
Nonetheless, as for analyzing the content material and the portent of the picture, I counsel a have a look at former Republican operative Steve Schmidt’s weblog “The Warning,” which juxtaposed Trump’s image with a frighteningly comparable considered one of Adol f ph Hitler.
The reserving picture taken at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta alerts that Trump goes to get again at everybody who mentioned a phrase in opposition to him. So, it is a good factor that every one however two candidates on the Republican debate stage final week raised their fingers to indicate loyalty to the chief.
Trump might get convicted and nonetheless win the GOP nomination and even the 2024 election. Let’s not neglect that Hitler spent a yr in jail earlier than changing into chancellor of Germany. If folks do not vote in opposition to Trump in droves to beat the electoral faculty, this nation will go the way in which of different former democracies.
I concern fascism can occur right here.
Margo Kasdan, Seal Seaside
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To the editor: Trump’s mug shot from Atlanta is one for the ages. His intentional providing of an “evil eye” is fortuitous, as if he’s asking us to recollect, “My evil eye calls the photographs.”
He can not assist however reveal his hatred for shedding management. His election lies have grow to be a part of his id and contoured the ethos of his being. As a licensed therapist, I see a forceful, frightened baby making a face an grownup baby.
Trump’s potential for hurt to each people and the material of this nation stabs on the coronary heart of humanity. Many who allow him are equally dangerous to democracy.
One factor is certain: There are a lot of cures to neutralize the “evil eye.” I’ll add another: Know the sunshine in your individual eyes is extra highly effective than any evil. And take motion with that information.
Marc Aronoff, Lenox, Mass.
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To the editor: A lot has been mentioned concerning the printing of the Trump mug shot. However the picture that was way more alarming to me was the one of many eight Republican candidates throughout their first debate, with six elevating their hand to point that if Trump have been to be a convicted felon by the 2024 election, they’d nonetheless help him.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley specifically, who’s extra certified than anybody on that stage and who had carried out so effectively through the debate as much as that time, completely harm herself with that hand increase. I’m disgusted.
Christina Anderson, Hacienda Heights..
To the editor: As for readers asking The Instances to not print any extra images of Trump, I submit that his mug shot from Georgia be the one exception. Please be at liberty to make use of it at any time when you should confer with the previous president.
This picture really captures his true self a bully and would-be tyrant attempting to cow all who gaze upon it.
Theresa Stolle, San Pedro
