Donald Trump and maga Republicans fake promise to bribe Americans with $5,000 for votes will burden our dangerously growing national debt

As November 3 draws closer by the day, Republicans are showing they are desperate, and none more so than Donald Trump.

Echo opinion letter published in the Sun Sentinel South Florida newspaper.

In Dallas, at his "fake-failed" rally billed as a convention, Trump made a basketful of ludicrous statements, and one was a stunner. He offered a 💲5,000 bribe to every American if, and only if, Republicans keep control of Congress after the midterms. The details as to how❓ to pay 💰 nearly 💲1 trillion in a nation already 💲40 trillion in debt were lacking, as are most of his boasts.

Forty Trillion looks like this: 💲40,000,000,000,000❗

The so-called convention was sheer desperation by a man who has proven his willingness to do or say anything to avoid repercussions certain to result from his numerous acts of corruption, insider trading, association with Jeffrey Epstein, economic incompetence and personal aggrandizement.

Anyone willing to buy what Trump is selling in exchange for their vote will see pigs 🐷fly before that 💲5,000 lands in their mailbox.

From David Kahn, in Boca Raton, Florida

Donald Trump is not fit to be president. Someone - a Republican - must call on him to leave the election

Echo opinion letters published in the Sun Sentinel a South Florida newsaper:

Thank you for inviting readers in South Florida to sound off on the New York conviction of Donald Trump.

I disagree with those who say that the voters will ultimately decide this case on election day. I feel the judge and jurors did their jobs. There will be an appeal. The justice system is working as usual so far. Our justice system, not voters in general, should decide this specific case.

American voters should judge Trump on his lack of devotion to the country. If he had been a patriotic American president, he would have gracefully left office in 2021. He and his supporters never accepted his defeat, and are unlikely to accept defeat if it should happen in 2024.

In the few months that remain before the November election, I long to hear Trump urge that the vote be accepted peacefully by all.

From David Blasco, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

And then there is this😧:  "Senator Marco Rubio once called Trump a con man, unfit to be president, before he crawled to Mar-a-Lago, groveling at Trump’s feet, begging for a blessing. As for Senator Rick Scott, how someone can plead the fifth 75 times, begs the question as to how he ended up as this state’s junior senator."

Florida's Senator Marco Rubio once called Trump a con man, unfit to be president, before he crawled to Mar-a-Lago, groveling at Trump’s feet, begging for a blessing. As for Senator Rick Scott, how someone can plead the fifth 75 times, begs the question as to how he ended up as this state’s junior senator.

Read any article about Trump and it’s clear that from the very beginning of his career, he operated on the edges, believing the rules didn’t apply to him. How about his oft-quoted claim that he could walk down Fifth Avenue and kill someone and not be charged.

Dr. Mary Trump, his niece, thoroughly portrayed him as an emotionally and psychologically disturbed individual in her book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”

Now there are consequences for his decades of questionable actions. Whatever the judge decrees will undoubtedly be dismissed by his cult followers. The fact that so many of them serve as our representatives and senators is the real shame.

From Dr. Mark Neil Levine, Coconut Creek, Florida

Christian Nationalist Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has edited The Ten Commandments

As a longtime independent voter and an optimist, I’m saddened by the recent Republican choice for House speaker.

Maine Writer opinion-  Although right wing Christian Nationalist Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will govern according to the Bible, he obviously edited out The Ten Commandments. He endorsed philanderer tRumpz who is also a convicted sexual offender and he voted to keep the stealing fraudulent George Santos in his House seat although he used campaign money to pay for adult content websites and other stuff. 

Letter opinion echo published in the South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper:  It was my hope that out of the chaos would come a conservative, right-centered leader willing to work across the aisle to get things done. Instead, in Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., we got a far-right election denier calling for Democratic blood.

We see the world on fire around us and we continue this internal warfare that’s tearing us apart. Even though I’m truly independent, as I like to examine both sides of an issue, I see the Republican cult as a clear and present danger to America.

I agree that the border and crime in our cities must be dealt with, but absolutely nothing compares to the lack of truth and compassion embraced by today’s Republicans. The anti-democracy extreme far right, wrapped in the flag and religion, is spiraling us down a dark path of destruction that must be stopped by my fellow independents and Democrats and the remaining free-thinking Republicans.

Every election, we hear that this is the most important election ever. Guess what? HELLO?  😳😲2024 really is!

Mark Lippman, Boca Raton, Florida