Trump cult loyalists are playing a zero sum game

Echo opinion letter published in the Massachusetts 

Daily Hampshire Gazette

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It’s sad to hear people like Jacob Chansley*, the face-painted, horn-wearing “QAnon Shaman” who played an evil image and grossly colorful part in the Jan. 6th, mob riot in Washington, complain that Donald Trump misled him and then failed to pardon him.

Con artists don’t care about people like Jacob; they can’t afford to feel badly for using and discarding them because it would stand in the way of getting power and money, and those are the only things they care about. Jacob and his fellow deluded insurrectionists are a dime a dozen.

On the other hand, Roger (“Dirty Tricks”) Stone got a pardon because he has special skills that will be valuable to Trump in the future. People who still support Trump need to wake up and accept the truth — they were fed a pack of lies.

(Maine Writer- obviously Republicans are unable to even read the lessons taught by the Peanuts cartoon!  Cult loyalty to Donald Trump is a zero sum game for the extremist Republicans.)

And members of Congress, from both parties, need to stand united, proclaim the truth, and hold Trump accountable. Otherwise, he will continue his con game from his gilded palace in Florida and the victims of his crimes, the American people, will never recover.

Susan Grant

Easthampton, Massachusetts 

*QAnon shaman - Chansley, 32, who had been going by the name Jake Angeli, is an actor and activist who was prominent at conservative protests in Arizona.

Prosecutors said Chansley went into the Capitol carrying a U.S. flag attached to a wooden pole topped with a spear, ignored an officer’s commands to leave, went into the Senate chamber and wrote a threatening note to then-Vice President Mike Pence.

Chansley told investigators he came to the Capitol “at the request of the president that all ‘patriots’ come to D.C. on January 6,” according to court records.