I’ve written many times about what is wrong with Trump that he should not become president.

Frankly, people who will vote for him are either misinformed or don’t care about the facts about him. The most important facts are that he is a felon, 34 times, due to his “business” practices in New York State; Trump and others have two pending felony indictments, one in Washington, D.C., and one in Georgia related to their role on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021; several lawsuits against Trump are filed by police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021; one felony indictment, for dismissal for taking secret or top secret documents belonging to the people of the US, is under appeal in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals; Trump was also found liable for “sexual assault” and defamation of the woman he attacked. Those are facts that cannot be dismissed as “misinformation.”

Those facts establish that people who vote for Trump simply don’t care that Trump may be guilty of crimes against the U.S. if Trump is “innocent”, as he says he is, let the prosecutors present their case and let them fail. Trump should be shouting “justice delayed is justice denied”, but you don’t hear a peep!

Those facts form the bases why people who worked in the former president’s administration, strong “national security” Republicans, don’t believe Trump should become president again.

Those facts establish my opinion that Trump’s only desire to seek the presidency is to avoid prosecution. All else becomes secondary to avoiding prosecution. His voters should feel the same. Delay of trials doesn’t make anyone charged with crimes “innocent.”

Other facts establish that his voters believe the same baseless lies that Trump has expressed about women and minorities that he rambles about at his rallies. Women and doctors who provide their medical care are suddenly criminals in some states? Unbelievable! “Haitians” eat the dogs, cats and the pets in Springfield, Ohio and California and/or Canada has a faucet which can be turned on and off to make California’s ground damp! Crazy! Clearly, Trump is not a normal person.

According to Politico, “the former president has escalated his xenophobic and racist rhetoric against migrants and minority groups he says are genetically predisposed to commit crimes”. It’s one thing to argue over issues since you’re arguing over how to arrive at different conclusions, but one can’t argue over facts, Trump’s lies and misinformation!

Paul L. Demler is a Jamestown resident.