Responding to my friend George Mathews’ defense of Trump (“Trump’s promises made were promises kept,” Jan. 28):

He did not build the wall. Tax cuts for all? Sure, if “all” means rich folks. I didn’t get one.

Trump defended the Bill of Rights? He attacked the press as the “enemy of the people” and called out federal troops to bust up a peaceful protest last summer.

Biden will ban fracking? Not so, our new president has said time and again.

The U.S. will become an energy importer again? We became energy self-sufficient under Obama, and there’s no evidence that we’ll backslide.

Yes on Trump appointing Republican judges, but not one of them, when approached about charges of fraud in the election, took them seriously.

So now, the truth: He lied about the severity of the pandemic, called Vietnam veterans (myself included) “losers” after he dodged the draft four times, mocked war hero John McCain, made fun of a reporter with a disability, denied evidence of climate change, bragged about assaulting defenseless women, presided over a “swamp”-infested administration with seven criminal prosecutions, and incited rioters to attack another branch of government.

As the pandemic ramped up to its peak the last two-plus months, he did nothing but whine about election fraud.

How do we avoid another such nightmare? We must not restrict ourselves to extremist media, or risk continuing the real Trump doctrine: Divide, divide, divide.

One more thing: Wearing a mask is not the political statement that awful man made it out to be. It’s an IQ test.

Dave Griffiths, Mechanic Falls

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