Vladimir Putin is lurking in the shadow of the Trump candidacy

Seeing no parallel-  Published in the Press Democrat, a newspaper in California Echo opinion letter to the Editor:

There is no parallel between Vladimir Putin jailing his adversaries and Donald Trump being indicted (“Justice as a weapon,” Letters, Aug. 28).

Just when you thought Russia’s love affair with the former U.S. president could not get any more nauseating.

In fact, Putin imprisons his enemies with little or no due process when he isn’t outright murdering them. Trump’s indictments are the result of weeks of testimony before grand juries of Trump’s peers, and that is just the beginning of the due process to which he has a right.

The right person to compare to Putin is Trump himself. Trump is a big Putin fan and has already shown us that he would weaponize our government given half the chance.

Funny how Trump’s supporters do everything but speak to the actual charges in the indictments. Must be because they know they are valid.

From Michael Wills in Sebastopol, California