To the editor: Inside a multimillion-dollar residence, barricaded by police for six city blocks in San Francisco, tech leaders gathered earlier this month to express their support and open their wallets to former President Trump.
As one attendee who changed his political allegiance noted, he witnessed “how 'the apparatus' (the media and other government institutions) went against [Trump].” Therefore, as a member of the recently persecuted, he was forced to change teams.
That poor guy and all those poor and filthy rich people, forced to change their allegiance in an instant (billions of them).
However, living in California means they won't suffer personally. If an abortion is necessary, they will do it. If your child is transgender, appropriate medical care is available.
Therefore, I offer the following as your Pledge of Allegiance: “My principles be damned as long as I can have whatever I want, whenever I want, delivered by a sociopathic, narcissistic, woefully underqualified convicted felon. Let the rest eat cake.”
Mollie Tammone, Oceanside
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To the editor: In its article about Trump fundraisers in Southern California, The Times quoted Donald Holly Sr., a Donald Trump supporter, as saying that under Trump “there were no world wars; everything was going well”.
The Times should have pointed out that the United States was, in fact, at war in Afghanistan throughout Trump's term. And that, contrary to the idea that everything was “fine,” there was a devastating pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans during the last year of Trump's presidency.
Holly is free to live in an alternate reality, but The Times should not have published her quotes without clarifying that they have no basis in this reality.
Brian Fodera, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: I noticed this quote from a Trump supporter in Monday's Times, stating that he was alarmed by Trump's recent condemnation because “if it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.”
Well yes: no one is above the law. Isn't that the point?
Robert Price, San Clemente
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To the editor: I can't speak for them, but if I were a veteran who selflessly and bravely risked his life in Afghanistan – or a family member of one of those brave men and women – and I read that Trump and his supporters boasted about it during his Yes in sometime there wouldn't be wars, I know how I would feel.
Douglas Green, Sherman Oaks
