Donald Trump has no respect for the law and he must never be elected to any political position

Opinion echo letter published in the Dallas Morning News by Cecil Larry Pool, from Midlothian, Texas. 

Trump took boxes of secret documents and tried to hide them!

Why?

Will the Trump supporters ever see? Hello? 37 felonies! More than 100 secret documents and he hid them in Mar-A-Lago. 

Re: “Trump indicted on 7 counts — Retention of top secrets, obstruction, conspiracy alleged,” Friday news story.

The indictment of Donald Trump on federal charges over his mishandling of classified documents gives mixed emotions. 

On one hand I am overjoyed that a man who for decades has assumed he was above the law is being held accountable. On the other hand, I am saddened that a man with no respect for the law and with no sense of compassion or empathy for others was ever elected president.

It grieves me that the vast majority of the GOP cult, despite the sexual abuse indictment and the one about paying hush money to adult porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York, still support him. 

But most heartbreaking of all is that the vast majority of white evangelical Christians so strongly support him. If he is convicted in this case, my prayer is that my friends and family in that religious group will at long last no longer support a man who does not deserve their devotion.

Cecil Larry Pool, Midlothian, Texas

Rick Perry must take a Bible study refresher course: Exodus 20:3-5

Echo opinion letter published in The Dallas Morning News

"When confronted with his myriad sins from serial adultery to his  total disdain of the truth, Trump demonizes his accusers and has never repented of anything," Cecil Larry Pool.

Obviously Rick Perry must take a Bible Study refresher course:

Exodus 20:3-5 King James Version (KJV)
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God

Rick Perry is putting Trump up as a graven image. His statement is blasphemy.

Re: “God chose president, Perry says,” Tuesday news story.

As a professor of history and a Baptist pastor, I do not know whether to laugh or cry at the comments of Rick Perry. As a historian, I know that our nation was founded on the repudiation of the divine right of monarchs, declaring that governments are “instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

I understand the difference between the active and permissive will of God. The view that God is simply a grand puppeteer and that men have no choice make him the architect not only of good but the horrible as well. It is this flawed theology that turns so many against the Gospel message.

To equate Donald Trump with the biblical King David is sad. When confronted with his sins, David repented as he expressed in Psalm 51. When confronted with his myriad sins from serial adultery to his total disdain of the truth, Trump demonizes his accusers and has never repented of anything.

Perry and the other evangelicals who totally support Trump defy our historical heritage and distort the Bible. 

As a religious minister, I choose to stand with Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and the biblical prophet Nathan.

Cecil Larry Pool, Midlothian Texas

Vote, impeach, convict - Trumpziism must be defeated!

Cluster echo opinion letters published in the Dallas Morning News:  Calling for Country over Trumpziism!

Imprison, don't impeach

Impeachment for behavior that made him president is a ridiculous strategy when the real problem is a greedy Republican cohorts who view taxes as an infringement on their God-given inheritance and equal heath care as a socialist subsidy for the underprivileged and unfortunate. Despots who ban Muslims while pandering religious freedom can always rally their contradiction Christian base — those who preach riches, rifles and racism (did Christ prize money or weapons, or put children in cages?) while ignoring consort with prostitutes and 16 sexual assault claims.
The real crimes lie in ignoring our oil-choked planet and brain-washing blue-collar outsourcing victims to view knowledge as elite rather than the wealth-care indolent who devastate their unions and hype their $8 per hour jobs.

Imprison, don't impeach, but only after we give Americans another chance to vote for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness rather than a trust-fund tyrant who extols white supremacists as "good people."

Golder Wilson, Dallas Texas

Federal prison in Beaumont Texas
(I hope federal prison officials are clearing enough cells to hold all Trumpzi criminals)

Country over Party! Stand up for institutions
The core strength of our country is our political institutions and the Constitution. Coequal branches of government with checks and balances have been tested and are now again.

Now Congress has begun a political process, impeachment, which is historical and based firmly upon the principals of checks and balances. In order to fulfill their duty, Congress will investigate and adjudicate if the president used his power to advance his political campaign ahead of the security of an ally against Russian aggression.

Precedence holds that investigations be unhindered, and opposition to that is called obstruction.

Disregarding the oath to our Constitution is a crime, and unless Republicans stand up for those institutions, our strength will be destroyed and that crime will be unpunished.

The time has come for Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to choose their country over the president's self-interest.

From David Faidley, Plano

Wrongly loyal to Trump, not country

The possible impeachment of Donald Trump is the tragic result of having a president who has no regard for the Constitution and the Democratic process. I am saddened but not surprised by the total Trump support by the Republican members of Congress, as well as almost all members of the right wing GOP party.

The GOP of Presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower no longer exists. In its place, they have created a cult of personality calling itself Republican. Driven by the white evangelical base, the former party now has devotion only to their leader, who, in their eyes, can do no wrong.

It is no wonder that they respond with anger, ridicule and condemnation to the possibility that the process may reveal the truth about the man to whom they have given their complete loyalty. To accept, without hesitation, the Trump attempts to have a foreign power help his re-election effort shows the complete absence of loyalty to our nation, our heritage and our laws by his supporters. I fear for the future of our republic.

Cecil Larry Pool, Midlothian