Read the charges, Trumpers. You’ll reconsider | Letters to the editor

Like others, I suppose I questioned why Special Counsel Jack Smith was so insistent that people take time to read the entire 49-page indictment of Donald Trump.

I decided to take time to read it, page by page, word for word, and I’m hopeful that others have done the same.

Some of you will defend the indictment as some form of a hoax, or witch hunt, while others like me will read it and ask, how in the world could we let such a person hold the highest office in the U.S.
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For those of you who, for whatever reason, remain as Trump defenders or followers, I question why what you read did not concern you or in fact scare the hell out of you?

If you happen to be on the fence, or a fair-weather Trump supporter, this should make you think twice about your support.

Dominick Austin, Dania Beach

A bridge too far

We know that every indicted American is entitled to the presumption of innocence. But come now, all you Trump fanatics who make up the base of the Republican Party, you haters of everyone who’s not “The Donald.”

When your man relies on the words of heretofore the most despised and dishonest president, Richard Nixon, to establish his innocence, you have to admit that it’s the proverbial bridge too far.

Trump is going down.

Even the sycophantic federal judge he appointed (Aileen Cannon), whose court is in Fort Pierce, cannot turn Trump’s lies into the gospel or the truth into an acquittal. This would be proof that the emperor has no clothes and never did.

David Kahn, Boca Raton 

Not a witch hunt

Regardless of your party affiliation, everyone apparently has a definite position on the Justice Department’s indictment of former President Trump. Most Republicans will say this is a witch hunt.

Bottom line: I will make a bet with any Republican that they cannot defend Trump without mentioning the words “Clinton” or “Biden.”

Ira Gross, Boca Raton

In its entirety

Print the entire 49-page indictment as a public service so that the public can see that this is not a witch hunt but a national security issue that should concern every American. It is their lives he has been playing with. It is not a “paper” issue. It is what is written on paper — the court documents.

Bill Gilchrist, Pompano Beach

Another Rubio-Scott fail

The weaponizing narrative, a common Republican strategy suggesting that Trump’s indictment was politically motivated and not the result of acts of criminality, has taken root in Florida.

Not surprisingly, senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, in their condemnation of the Department of Justice special counsel, have demonstrated that the rule of law means little if it conflicts with their conservative ideology.

Who can forget when Scott, as a Senate juror in Trump’s first impeachment trial, was dismissive of his solemn oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws? He let his intention to acquit be known before the trial began.

Rubio’s claim that the indictment will serve to undermine our institutions is counterintuitive. What could possibly be more destabilizing than failure of law enforcement to exercise its authority because of political pressure?

Jim Paladino, Tampa