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The Issue: The failed assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pa., one year ago.
I’m not surprised at the lack of information on the assassination attempt in Butler. Pa. (“We Still Need Answers on Butler,” Editorial, July 12).
When I read that we should be given “a full tick-tock timeline of exactly who decided what when, and so left such gaping holes in Trump’s security,” my first thought was: Good luck.
We have minute-by-minute accounts of some of the events that took place on Jan. 6 verified by actual recordings, and those led nowhere. The former Capitol Police chief, Steven Sund, even wrote “Courage Under Fire” about his many requests for assistance — with very appropriate suggestions to his “higher ups” — that were ignored.
So don’t hold your breath waiting for accountability in the assassination attempt. Although I hope to be proven wrong.
Jeannine Dionne
Woonsocket, RI
MAGA loyalists Roger Stone and Steve Bannon seem to assert that “divine intervention” was involved in Butler, Pa., on the terrifying day of the President Trump assassination attempt (“Trump ‘spared by God,’ ” July 13).
That is a very tricky suggestion.
After all, tyrants like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro all survived attempts on their lives.
I wonder what heavenly justification could be used to explain their good fortune.
Anthony Nannetti
Philadelphia, Pa.
The left wanted President Trump out of the election but failed to put him in prison, and couldn’t keep his name off the ballot. There was only one other way to keep Trump from running in the presidential race — and that was to kill him. The left’s claim he was an existential threat to democracy may have inspired would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot Trump. Oddly enough, we never learned much about Crooks — who was cremated shortly after the shooting. We the people still want answers.
JoAnn Lee Frank
Clearwater, Fla.
There’s no other explanation for the attempted Trump assassination other than his being saved by our Savior. Miracles do happen and on that day Trump’s life was able to continue on God’s earth.
This was beyond remarkable; there is some deeper meaning to this failed assassination attempt where Trump avoided death at the hands of a crazed individual. One doesn’t have to be a religious person to accept why this gunman failed to end a life at close range.
Accepting the faults of his Secret Service and being content afterward is the Trump that is now leading our nation forward.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt
The Issue: A “Jews for Zohran” campaign supporting antisemitic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Jews for Zohran Mamdani are like Gays for Gaza or Chickens for KFC (“ ‘Jews for Mam’ by leftist mogul’s kin,” July 13).
These so-called Jews have no connection to Judaism. They are Jews in name only.
Ephraim Aminoff
Manhattan
Your readers might be shocked by this news. However, in 1932 there was an organization in Germany of Jews for Adolf Hitler.
Of course, this organization, together with all other Jewish organizations, was dissolved by the state when the Nazis took control in 1933.
Laz Schneider
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
There have always been Jews who internalize Jew hatred, finding it more comfortable to be a “good Jew” and agree with the antisemitism they are surrounded by rather than stand up as proud Jews.
Jews for Mamdani internalize his very public support of everything Hamas.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
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