It’s not Trump you should be concerned about

Candace Plog is correct in her letter to the editor in pointing out that our country has been wounded (“Are NFL players showing concern by dropping to a knee?” The Herald, Aug. 17). But like most lefties, she points to the wrong perpetrator as causing the damage.

Our country and culture have been under attack for over a hundred years, culminating in the election of Barry Obama. As President, Obama immediately weaponized the government, including the IRS, the FBI, the Intelligence community, the State Department and most other branches of the Federal Government. He turned these weapons on his political enemies, primarily conservatives, and in general destroyed the “rule of law.”

Plog is correct also, that our country can’t survive that type of grotesque regime, and President Trump is doing an excellent job of restoring the rule of law and re-establishing the Constitution, despite the fact that the entire apparatchik of the left (including the media) went bananas when Trump won the election. Unable to accept that their anointed one, Hillary Clinton would not sit on the throne, they immediately started conspiring to remove him from office (even before he took the oath). They cooked up ridiculous “collusion” charges and pre-election set the FBI to fabricating “dossiers” that they could use to take to the FISA court to wire-tap the Trump campaign. That’s right, a sitting president, Obama, authorized his Justice Department to wire tap the opposing parties nominee based on a fabricated document paid for by his opponent. And that, dear friends, is why this country needs to be investigating Obama and Hillary, not President Trump!

Curt Greer

Marysville

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