To the Editor:

The former President has many annoying habits, not the least of which is saying things that are simply false, and he expects the audience to nod their heads and not question any of the words’ validity. One of his favorites is the indefinite pronoun “everybody.” For instance, he’ll say, “Everybody knows the trial is a sham, rigged, a witch hunt.”

Everybody? No, not everybody. Your obsequiously obedient followers may agree with every word you say, but certainly not everybody. Twelve ordinary citizens, the former President’s peers, withstood his lies, bullying, and threats to deliver a guilty verdict that he quite naturally was going to reject. (Here I could have been a soothsayer of sorts and said, “everybody knows what the former President is going to say about his guilty verdict.) Related to his disdain with what was happening in his trial for the hush money cover-up, the former President monotonously repeated, “No one has ever seen anything like it.” Why hasn’t our country ever seen anything like it?

You don’t have to be a history major to know that we have never been saddled with a former President with such a propensity for such a wide variety of criminalities. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why we’ve “never seen anything like this before.” And let’s pray that we never have to see the former President or anyone like the former President ever again.

Finally, I heard the former President railing again about the crisis at the border as we’ve never seen before. With the flood of migrants showing up, it’s as if we’re becoming a “third-world country.” Really? What third-world countries have refugees clamoring to get into them? I’m saying the answer would be none . Given the choice, I think asylum-seekers would opt for “the shining beacon on the hill,” the good old U.S. of A.

Maybe when the former President’s legal problems have been adjudicated here or after a November loss has him ready to flee to safety to avoid prosecution, he’ll have to take refuge in one of those third-world countries he’s so eager to denigrate. They likely wouldn’t want him either.

But maybe Vladimir and Tucker have a cot for him in the Navalny suite in the IK-3 penal colony north of the Arctic Circle in Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets region. (It rather rolls right off the tongue just like Mar-a-Lago.) Knowing how adoring he is of his buddy Vladimir, I’m sure the former President would be most appreciative of the Russian accommodations; however, the toilets and showers, about which he has simple-mindedly complained during his failed presidency, might be a little sub-standard.

Keith R. Klawitter

Morgan