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A day of hypocrisy and shame

Recently, in a New York legal deposition, Donald Trump pleaded the Fifth Amendment, declining to answer any questions about his business dealings in New York. For those of us who pay attention, we remember Trump saying in September 2016 that only guilty mobsters plead the Fifth under oath. At least he was truthful once!

Fortunately, in a civil case, Fifth Amendment responses can be used against him. Trump has seven current cases that he is fighting in and out of court right now, and he just had his personal residence searched in Florida because he will not turn over classified documents.

Much worse, hegets served with a legal warrant for stealing/mishandling classified material, and Republican politicians come out of the woodwork, encouraging him to run for president again. Go figure; these are the same Republicans who chastised Hillary Clinton for four years at a cost of $7.8 million for having a private email server. No charges were ever brought, but she did get beaten in the 2016 election. I say again, what is wrong with us? Our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves.

We have allowed Trump to lie, cheat and steal, and get away with it. The more he lies, the more his supporters love him. We know that millionaires and billionaires love him because of their tax breaks, but why do the lower classes revere him? Trump uses them like he uses everyone. It is not just the uneducated, the poor and the uninformed who support him. Many decent, reasonable people still support him.Ignorance is not an excuse. Get off of Fox News.

Im never one to spend a lot of time hoping and praying, but we had better start hoping that a large number of decent, old-school Republicans and independent voters vote Democratic in 2022 and 24.

After just finding out that Alex Jones lawyer accidentally sent 2,000 text messages to the lawyer for the Sandy Hook Elementary School decedents, and that the Jan. 6 commission now has them and probably the Department of Justice, my prayers may be answered. Jones, Trump and Roger Stone may be sharing a jail cell down the road.

Michael Perham, Clermont

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for 13 years.

Prices are up. Corporate profits hit record highs. But the minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 since July 24, 2009.

Were deep into the longest period without a raise since the federal minimum wage was enacted in 1938 through the Fair Labor Standards Act, which aimed to eliminate labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being of workers and detrimental to fair competition among businesses.

Without a federal raise, millions of Americans will be left behind.

Holly Sklar, CEO, Business for a Fair Minimum Wage

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