To the editor:

In the 1997 movie "Wag the Dog," the American president manufactures a war to distract voters from a sex scandal. Sound familiar? It's exactly what President Donald Trump is doing right now in Iran.

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MEPD Ret

As per usual, your claims remain unsubstantiated, with no independent evidence publicly confirming them, including the assault claims against Trump. None of your accusations or speculations has resulted in charges, convictions, or corroborated evidence establishing them as fact. Trump has consistently denied all such accusations.

Separately, in 2016, an anonymous plaintiff filed lawsuits, but they were dismissed or dropped with no further legal action. They have been widely viewed as lacking substantiation. They were regarded as politically motivated during his presidential campaign.

No criminal charges were filed against Trump under the prior Biden administration, even though they had full access to the Epstein files. Do you actually believe that if they had anything at all, they wouldn’t have used it in the never-ending conga line of lawfare before the election?

Besides, whatever happened to the presumption of innocence or due process?

Your irrational Trump hatred has clouded and preempted any relationship to reality, truth, or rationality.

It sort of blows apart your whole “Wag the Dog” thesis. Which, in the aggregate, is rather insulting to the thinking world when you consider Iran’s recalcitrant posturing over developing its nuclear enrichment capabilities.

As for any jealousy over Barack Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal, I am going to have to wave the BS Flag while simultaneously laughing my posterior off.

Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iranian nuclear deal because it was a one-sided disaster of anything resembling a deal. It’s that very deal that got us to where we are right now. Plus, it gave Iran a C-130 full of pallets of cash to do whatever they wanted, including funding global terrorism.

Welcome to the discussion.

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