Donald Trump and his 10,000 documented lies- echo from Pennsylvania

Donald Trump is not making re-election progress in Pennsylvania.  

This echo opinion letter was published in the Tribune Review TribLive news, in Western Pennsylvania. 

Trump is, and has been, pulling out every stop to hide information about himself, his tax records, bank and business dealings, etc. 

(Because he lies....)....He calls it harassment and a coup attempt to be asked about such things. Well, the coup may have already taken place in 2016. Who can trust a president with 10,000 documented lies behind him to date?

We need to consider the words of Fisher Ames*, a congressman during George Washington’s two terms. Ames helped with the final framing of the First Amendment. 

On Aug. 2, 1804, Fisher Ames wrote in the Boston Gazette:

“We have considered our elections as the result of enlightened and just discrimination; but if falsehood is thus to be secretly and systematically diffused, for the purpose of influencing suffrage (voting), our elections will be a mockery, a fair or market, in which the vilest of mankind will be the most successful dealers, and virtue a commodity … . Ought not their secrecy to create distrust?”

Will America end by going from a first president who could not tell a lie to a final president who cannot tell the truth? 

Have enlightened and just elections ended in America?

Bruce Braden, Carmel, Indiana.

The writer is a Mt. Pleasant native.

*"He who holds parley with vice and dishonor, is sure to become their slave and victim."- Fisher Ames (1758-1808)