To the editor: These of us paying shut consideration already knew the whole lot in former Justice Division particular counsel Jack Smith’s report on President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. Maybe these abruptly stunned at its findings could also be neglecting to remain knowledgeable.
The one rationalization for why so many failed to note Trump’s try to revoke the desire of American voters and illegally maintain on to the presidency is willful ignorance. And it’s this willful ignorance that’s permitting a convicted prison again into the Oval Workplace.
An previous adage says you may’t repair silly. However you repair willful ignorance by staying knowledgeable, and the spine of a thriving nation is an knowledgeable citizens.
To carry on to our democracy, we have to stay alert, concerned and knowledgeable. Something much less retains us in our present predicament.
Robert Archerd, Rancho Palos Verdes
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To the editor: Smith determined to not cost Trump with riot partially as a result of Justice Division coverage prohibits charging sitting presidents with federal prosecution, and Trump was president when the assault on the U.S. Capitol occurred. Prosecuting a president on such an offense could be unprecedented.
However the alleged crime itself is unprecedented. By no means within the historical past of our nation has a sitting president incited a mob to assault the Capitol to forestall the peaceable switch of energy. An unprecedented crime calls for a commensurate authorized response, even when that response is unprecedented.
Smith’s conduct highlights the distinction between the 2 factions in our deeply polarized nation. He feels obligated to abide by our nation’s precedents and legal guidelines. Trump and his loyalists really feel justified, even keen, to trample customs, precedents and legal guidelines in pursuit of their objectives.
Jerrold Gold, Thousand Oaks
