Dear Mr. Trump,
How can you call Hillary Clinton a liar when according to
Politifact you lie over 70% of the time and she lies less than 30% of the time?
Don’t blame this inconvenient fact on
the “liberal” media. The world is not
divided into only liberals and conservatives who buy the party line. Unlike you, the geeks at fact-checking
organizations are interested in the truth.
How can we not believe your female accusers when their
charges portray the same man that you brag about being? The respectable people that your victims
confided in witnessed the anguish you caused, bolstering the likely veracity of
their claims. The fact that some other
men behave deplorably does not absolve you.
Why do you call yourself a successful businessperson when
you lost almost a billion dollars in a boom economy by making several unwise
investments? Through self-promotion, you
gained celebrity status and used it lure investors into bad deals where you won
and everyone else lost. You routinely
default on your financial obligations to small businesses and litigate against
people that have offended you. Ethical business
people make deals that benefit all parties.
Will you be able as president to suppress your ego and represent the
best interest of the United States?
How can you be trusted to make complex decisions when you do
not solicit input from experts? Solutions
to modern-day problems require an informed leader who carefully weighs input
from knowledgeable sources. You treat
your opinions as fact even when they contradict the evidence. You state that climate change is a hoax
perpetrated by the Chinese government. Nonsense. Even a well-seasoned PhD physicist such as
myself is unqualified to judge science outside my field without input from the
experts. My conclusion that
anthropomorphic climate change is happening draws on my knowledge of science
and the consilience of evidence in the climate science literature. Do you plan to continue to spew uninformed
opinions that go against the evidence?
Doing so as the most powerful world leader could jeopardize the existence
of humanity.
How could you not have known that Russia had invaded Ukraine
and annexed Crimea? When informed that
Russia had already done so, you stated that it was your understanding that the people
of Crimea rather be with Russia. How
would you react if Mexico annexed southern California because people there
would rather be with Mexico? Those with
aspirations of being a world leader should be keenly aware of current events.
Why do you bash the media?
The founding fathers so highly valued the need for a free and independent
press that they elevated this principle to prominence by including it in the
first amendment. The media is an
essential part of our democracy. It
informs our citizens and keeps politicians honest. The media, which you so despise, has given
you $3 billion dollars of free coverage, so do not complain when the facts
investigators uncover are inconvenient.
Punishing the media would be an affront to the core principles of our
democracy.
How can the elections be rigged? A recent study showed only 30 cases of voter
fraud out of a billion ballots cast. You
claimed, “People that have died 10 years ago are still voting,” and cited
a report that found 1.8 million deceased people remain on voter
registration rolls. The fact that it
takes time to remove people from the voting rolls does not mean that others are
voting in their places. In fact, studies
show that such cases are extremely rare.
You also claim that “illegal immigrants are voting,” citing
research from Old Dominion University.
The Harvard professor who manages the database says that this study misuses
the data and that in fact very few undocumented residents are voting. If such election fraud really existed, don’t
you think that the offended party would be investigating?
How can we discount your behavior as indicative of an individual
who is adept at self-promotion but shows contempt for the facts, takes pleasure
in unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, refuses to accept criticism, acts
impulsively, and lacks the nuanced thinking needed to make rational decisions? Even if your ideology coincided with mine, a Trump
presidency would terrify me. Can you
convince us that you have the temperament and wisdom to lead this country? Your actions provide the strongest evidence
that you do not. Though you repeat how
great things will be if elected, you have not outlined a plan to get us there,
nor do you appear to have any new inspirational ideas. Instead, you offer scapegoats and platitudes.
In my opinion, there is no evidence that you are fit to lead
our nation. Your inability to reason
logically and your refusal to heed expert advice that contradicts your gut will
be disastrous for our democracy and civilization. However, if the people elect you, I will go
along with the results and work towards proving me wrong in these assertions.
Sincerely,
Mark G. Kuzyk
