To the Editor:

Oddly, Trump has been unusually candid lately on essential issues (although still laughably denying his clear connection to P/2025 or accountability for anything else). For just a sample:

After a court plea last week to overturn his $88-million-dollar liability verdicts for sexual abuse/defamation of E. Jean Carroll in 2023, Trump, unprompted and “weirdly,” defended himself in graphic detail against an entirely different sexual assault case on an airplane that the court had not allowed into evidence at Carroll’s trial. Dozens of women have accused Trump of rape or sexual misconduct dating back to the 1970s, including his now-deceased ex-wife, Ivana.

Posting that VP Harris campaign donors “will not escape his retribution” if they participate in a 2024 “election steal, as they did in 2020,” Trump said they will be “targeted,” and “prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our country.” As he so often does, Trump projects his wrongful acts onto others, then threatens them not to do as he did.
In a video interview last week with Lex Fridman about the 2020 election, Trump admitted that, “I lost it by a whisker.” It is not the only evidence of “The Big Lie.” Several of Trump’s then-aides have confirmed that Trump knew he had lost. In a recent interview with Mark Levin on Fox, Trump said he “had a perfect right to interfere” with the election. Every court, including SCOTUS, has rejected Trump’s fraud claims.

Nevertheless, post-election, while his minions threatened selected elections workers, unsuccessful candidate Trump tried to shake down GA and other states’ officers for votes, directed an insurrection, hyped fake electors, GOP election deniers, and the base, in activating the false alarm of “Stop the Steal.” Nick Fuentes, Holocaust denier and White Nationalist friend of Trump, furiously accused Trump of “tremendous betrayal” and “callus [sic] indifference to the sacrifices that his supporters made on his behalf.” He suckered them all for his own ambition and to avoid jail.

Trump warned last Saturday that, “This may be our last election. You want to know the truth? People have said that.” Who has said it? Trump, repeatedly. It’s a P/2025 promise. The greatest victory that despotic leaders can have against the Free World is to arrest the heart of democracy, the vote, by inducing distrust of elections with a false cry of “voter fraud,” so that elections become unreliable and irrelevant, and alternate authoritative power can prevail to “fix the [unbroken] system.” The GOP, now thoroughly Trump’s Party has, since at least 2020, legislated extensively to constrain the votes of minorities, particularly in the South. MAGA has already embraced democratically-suicidal election distrust, without evidence, based solely on Trump’s knowingly false assertions.

Once faith is lost in democratic processes and principles, chaos and violence are increasingly likely, as is now threatened by the Far-Right Heritage Foundation: there will be a bloodless revolution [under P/2025], unless the Left resists). What the Trump Party plans is no mystery anymore. The facts can all be Googled.

Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca