Letter to the Editor

Trump a dictator?

By Jim Austin, Campbell Hall
Posted 8/23/23

Don’t you just love these nonsense letters about Trump being a dictator if he is elected? Let’s see, what would a dictator do if one was elected? How about arresting his political …

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Letter to the Editor

Trump a dictator?

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Don’t you just love these nonsense letters about Trump being a dictator if he is elected? Let’s see, what would a dictator do if one was elected? How about arresting his political opponents like they do in Venezuela. Redefine the legal code and put him away for years. That would be a good start.

His protesters would be summarily rounded up, charged with bogus crimes and put behind bars. Maybe they would be shot on sight, the name Ashley Babbit rings a bell. A dictator would make sure there are no opposing points of view. Pravda in Russia is an example, but here in America, the FBI would have a direct line to Twitter and Facebook, telling them what to remove. Technology would allow him to track the phones of his opponents without a warrant. When he became old and feeble, the state-controlled press would be told to ignore it.

Trump has amassed a fortune and wouldn’t need money, but one less fortunate from a modest past on a government salary would not have enough. So maybe get rich by taking bribes from other countries for access and favors. With all that ill-gotten money, a dictator of old would live in a lavish castle, but today one would have to settle for a few mansions, something like the du Pont estate in Delaware and a nice beach house on the Chesapeake. A dictators family would be enriched by setting up numerous shell corporations, from which the money would flow to avoid taxes. Or if a family member got caught up in a federal crime, the controlling federal agency would either ignore it or slow walk the charges until the statute of limitations has run out.

Those of you who depend on the media to form an opinion are intellectually actually lazy.