Readers sound off on Trump’s financial backers, mass deportations and Haredi enlistment

To cognize Trump’s existent support, travel the money

Manhattan: Last Friday, I had the acquisition of spending clip with a millennial Donald Trump supporter. It felt similar I was listening to a YouTube conspiracy video. I listened to them ramble connected with RFK Jr.’s rants that HIV doesn’t origin AIDS, and that someway circled backmost to fluoride successful the h2o poisoning our brains.

Then the CIA came into the speech arsenic having “murdered RFK’s uncle oregon dad, thing similar that,” close earlier “we are witnessing the systematic demolition of the two-party strategy due to the fact that voting is an illusion and Trump is going to amusement america all, including the Epstein list“ (verbatim).

There was much successful the aforesaid vein, and this leads maine to 1 happening astir what this poor, brainwashed psyche said: Voting is not an illusion, it’s conscionable each astir the money. There has to beryllium an bonzer fiscal payment for the affluent — not for Trump’s mean supporters, who look to deliberation they’re going to get checks successful the message from that antheral becoming president. I’ve been watching that buffoon for the past 3 decades and this is virtually a joke. His crimes are proven. His racism is proven. His incompetence is proven. Yet, present we stand.

I’m a steadfast believer that erstwhile determination is simply a mystery, travel the money. I’m funny to spot who profits from this farce, possibly billionaire Peter Thiel. I’m definite the influx of replies are inbound, but delight reread that I ne'er said the predetermination was stolen. You guys are a small predictable. T.S. Fallani

Unworthy options

Liberty, N.Y.: I hold with Voicer Joan Kraft. I did not vote. The choices were precise poor. America has to person amended candidates. I wonderment however galore much bowed out. No 1 earned my vote. Loretta Guido

Pro-choice

Belvidere, N.J.: I instrumentality contented with Voicer Joan Kraft’s logic. If a registered Republican oregon Democrat is “ashamed” of their candidate, that’s nary crushed for sitting retired this monumental statesmanlike election. Even if Kraft is simply a registered Independent, she reveals a bigger disdain for Kamala Harris erstwhile she labels her a “progressive feminist baby-killer.” Personally, Trump is simply a motivation mess, but helium volition uphold the Republican Party level of protecting our spiritual state successful each aspects of society. If elected president, Harris would person had pro-life aesculapian doctors execute abortions against their conscience and their spiritual beliefs. Kraft could person included “Communist” successful her statement of Harris. Dan Arthur Pryor

Birthright citizenship

Olivebridge, N.Y.: A woman’s close to her ain assemblage moves into the Trump-era crosshairs. Two considerations: In what trimester does a fetus go an American citizen? If the reply to that is simply a fetus is not an American citizen, past determination is lone 1 national to see erstwhile an American pistillate is pregnant. My decision is that the authorities (federal, state) needs to perfectly respect the determination of the American citizen. Second consideration: For those who notation to a fetus arsenic an “unborn child”: We volition each dice astatine immoderate constituent – that’s 1 of the fewer certainties these days. Therefore, utilizing the aforesaid verbal gymnastics, are we each past “undead corpses”? Warren Davis

Esteemed stature

St. James, L.I.: The predetermination decided the adjacent president and the vitriol continues betwixt the respective camps. The infantile besmirching of President-elect Trump indispensable cease. I person abhorred the references to Hitler, fascism, dictator, “orange man” and galore different labels thrown his way. The bureau of president indispensable beryllium respected. You whitethorn not respect the occupant of the Oval Office, but the bureau itself indispensable beryllium respected. The occupant of this ineffable bureau is the law person of our state and is considered the person of the Free World. I bash not respect the idiosyncratic named Donald J. Trump. I do, however, respect the president of the United States, duly elected by the radical of this large country. Carmine E. Esposito

Beholden to Big Oil

Brooklyn: Every clip I unfastened my mail, determination is simply a plea from immoderate biology radical to prevention the wolves oregon the Arctic wilderness oregon immoderate different genuinely worthy cause. Now that Trump is going to beryllium president, I expect a full warfare connected the environment. There whitethorn soon beryllium lipid rigs successful our nationalist parks. The lipid manufacture funded his run and it volition expect to reap the benefits. His medication volition vindictively dismantle each regularisation that stands successful the mode of large business. The electrical and hybrid car innovations the Biden medication fostered whitethorn soon beryllium rescinded on with the jobs they created. This whitethorn not beryllium what voters wanted, but it’s what they’ll get. Ed Temple

Stand against a roundup

Roosevelt, L.I.: Let america protestation President-elect Trump’s wide deportation plan. It is senseless household separation connected steroids. It indispensable not beryllium tolerated nary substance however fashionable Trump is. The wide deportation of 11 cardinal immigrants is highly harmful. All immigrants are not criminals and indispensable not beryllium discriminated against with Trump backmost successful the White House. Hard-working immigrants indispensable beryllium celebrated and appreciated, not eliminated to support Trump’s run promise, built connected lies. Yes, those who person committed crimes indispensable wage the time. That includes Trump. You reap what you sow, and what happens successful the acheronian volition travel to light. Dangerous treble standards of wide deportation could backfire connected America. It creates devastating costs to American citizens successful presumption of our economy, nationalist indebtedness and budget. Arthur L. Mackey Jr.

Stripped of scapegoats

Sebastian, Fla.: After each the immigrants are deported, who volition you blasted for each the crime? Kevin Keppenheimer

Out-of-place emotion

Monroe, N.Y.: Re “Jimmy Kimmel gets choked up reflecting connected Trump win” (Nov. 7): I’m sorry, I indispensable person missed the tears Jimmy Kimmel shed for our wonderful, loyal troops who mislaid their lives evacuating our citizens from Afghanistan during President Biden’s tail-between-his-legs blunder of an evacuation. Mike Ryan

Overqualified

Brooklyn: Reading astir the connection by Councilmember Pierina Ana Sánchez to necessitate utilizing a licensed plumber to instal immoderate appliances that close present travel from the store acceptable to plug into the outlet (“Repairing what isn’t broken,” editorial, Nov. 17), I would similar to cognize if that connection includes the task to enactment a caller rotation of toilet insubstantial into the holder, oregon bash we person to telephone a plumber oregon a councilmember to bash it? Francisco J. Castillo

Join the fight

Chirnside Park, Victoria, Australia: If Israeli Muslims tin articulation the Israel Defense Forces voluntarily and combat and dice bravely alongside their Sabra and different Jewish brothers and sisters successful arms erstwhile defending Israel, I’m definite determination indispensable beryllium adjacent to 250,000 Haredi Jewish men retired of the world’s astir 2 cardinal Haredim who could combat for Israel’s — and ultimately, the remainder of Judean-Christian-based Western society’s — precise existence! And immoderate “we bash not fight” Haredim having doubts should fastener onto the information that isolated from Israel’s hundreds of millions of accepted Middle Eastern enemies, it faces the combined mightiness of ever-tentacle-spreading, totalitarian Red China, despotic Putin-led Russia and third-generation-crazy-coot-led North Korea; each truthful precise greatly aiding and abetting said hundreds of millions of accepted enemies of tiny Israel. Howard Hutchins

Asking excessively much

Milford, Pa.: Gov. Hochul wants to unpause congestion pricing. No astonishment there. She’s present proposing a $9 interest alternatively of $15. That’s expected to marque radical consciousness better? All this to money the achromatic hole, aka the MTA. The bureau has already requested $63 cardinal for its superior program — $63 billion? The specified petition is the tallness of hubris. They shouldn’t get a dime of drivers’ wealth until the books are audited and we spot wherever each that wealth is truly going. The MTA wants much money? Raise the fare and halt fare-beating, past we’ll talk. Until then, not a cent! Robert K. Greco

Licensed liabilities

Staten Island: I person 1 question we could each hold upon: When is the NYPD going to commencement to patrol the city’s highways and propulsion implicit and summons these reckless drivers? Along with security companies gouging consumers erstwhile it comes to security premiums, these are the clowns that besides propulsion the premiums higher. Enough is enough. Dennis Pascale