It was evident immediately after the tragic incident in Pennsylvania that Sen. J.D. Vance — the Republican nominee for vice president under Donald Trump — will serve as Trump’s campaign surrogate, dishing out the shopworn Trump conspiracy theory that President Biden and Democrats are pursuing “witch hunts and hoaxes” to thwart Trump’s return to the White House.
Two hours after a lone shooter’s bullet grazed Trump’s right ear, Vance, who once referred to Trump as “America’s Hitler,” wrote in a tweet: “Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
On the campaign trail, Trump will preach the urgent need for civility, unity and political and rhetorical restraint while invoking God and suggesting invincibility. That will leave Vance to rant relentlessly about how Democrats have plotted for more than four years to ruin the reputation of a presidential candidate who’s a failed businessman, known sex offender, convicted felon and admitted insurrectionist.
Paul Doell, Hollywood
A lack of awareness
I was appalled by the comment made by J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, that the U.K. could become the first “truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon” under the Labour Party.
He apparently has no knowledge that, while winning the national election in a landslide, the Labour Party also lost five parliamentary seats to pro-Palestinian candidates (in Birmingham Perry Barr, Blackburn, Dewsbury, Batley and Leicester South) because of their pro-Israel positions.
Do we really want a candidate for vice president who has such a lack of awareness of facts and revels in insulting the government of one of our closest allies?
J.D. Hirschel, Highland Beach
Why Biden should stay in
I am joining the chorus of Trump supporters who want Biden to stay in the race.
If Democrats want real democracy, Biden is the candidate they voted for overwhelmingly in the primaries. Those votes should not be disregarded.
George Clooney says the Biden he met recently at a big donor event in L.A. was not the same man as he was was awhile back. Why didn’t he say something then? I guess those Hollywood luminaries were all trying to get their candidate over the hump. (That’s why they’re called actors.)
We don’t want to be like Democrats, who’ve been trying to get Trump out of the race before the election.
Mark Goldstein, Boca Raton
An Amendment 4 trick
Regarding the article about how the Florida abortion financial impact statement leads to controversy, it is necessary to inform people that $17 billion (with a B) remains in state budget reserves that can be used to finance litigation that may arise from Amendment 4.
The cries by Amendment 4’s opponents to not pass it because it could cause costly lawsuits is just another dirty and dramatic trick to fool the people, who are not as daft as they may believe.
Becca Bryan, Oakland Park
