Letter to the editor: Trump is a RINO

Donald Trump is many things: Former president, sore loser, con man, seditionist? Add RINO to the list, as in Republican In Name Only.

Consider that before he ran for president in 2016, Trump’s political leanings were ambiguous at best. Trump seized on the right wing because he saw it as an opportunity to capitalize on disaffected conservative white voters who recoiled at eight years under President Obama and possibly four of Hillary Clinton. It’s not unreasonable to wonder what a Trump candidacy might have looked like if he was following a conservative such as George W. Bush. Trump identifies an audience and tells it what it wants to hear.

By his actions throughout his presidency, through the riot he fomented Jan. 6 and ever since, Trump spits on the Constitution he swore to uphold. Trump is all about Trump. Laws, conservative principles and people are just pawns in his game. Even the conservative justices he appointed to the Supreme Court are there for the greater glory of Trump. Whether he can articulate any legal position or doctrine coherently is dubious.

Trump does know how to bully, and he ran roughshod over the spineless jellyfish in his party. But as the truth comes out about his election lies, the walls of justice are closing in. It’s time for conservative voters to dump Trump and find new leaders who respect the law and the American system.

Know Donald Trump for the phony that he is, was and ever will be.

Dan Skantar

North Fayette