The Livingston County Sheriff invited the GOP presidential candidate — a convicted sexual offender and felon — to speak about crime and lawlessness. (What irony!) The county county commissioners and numerous candidates, including Mike Rogers, who attended the August event abandoned professional and ethical standards because they fear their convicted leader and must pretend that they like him. Next, they will be fawning over dictators.
Unfortunately, all Republicans running for office are Trump-cult candidates. For example, Mike Rogers brags about his FBI and law enforcement experiences and then supports a pathological liar who disrespects our national institutions.
Rogers, who chaired the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, now enables a tawdry charlatan who stood next to Putin and undermined our nation’s intelligence agency. What a fall from grace to support a dangerous and diminished presidential candidate who has taken the Republican party down a black hole.
Hopefully, one day, non-MAGA Republicans will recover their party and help strengthen our democracy. Our country needs healthy and vibrant political parties, but not a MAGA cult controlled by a self-serving man who craves absolute power, demands unquestionable loyalty, and brings out the worst in everyone.
Attendees at the Livingston County August event have turned a deaf ear to former cabinet members, military advisers and aides who are warning that Trump is unfit and dangerous for the highest office. They are aiding and abetting his lies and criminal activity, and to not hold him accountable is the ultimate disservice to our country.
Evelyn Gallegos
Brighton
