Trump is a convicted felon 34 times! Full stop. He is now a criminal. Full stop!

Echo opinion letter published in the Los Angeles Times: So many of the analyses are about the polls showing whether former President Trump’s guilty verdict in New York will shift voters. Others wonder if he will win on appeal or whether the case should have been brought to trial at all. Some articles put him on an equal footing with President Biden.😓😞

Instead it should be clearly and repeatedly stated that it’s really serious for a former president and presumptive major party nominee to have been convicted of falsifying documents in a scheme to pay out hush money and influence the outcome of the 2016, election.

Trump is now a felon, but is still being treated as a celebrity. This type of coverage is lazy, and when people wonder how he keeps getting away with everything, part of the reason is that the media have been blinded by his persona.

That would be fine if they were writing about a reality TV personality, not a felon running to be president again.

From Bonnie Voland, in Los Angeles, California