To the editor: Scott Jennings is correct — the man who performed Sen. JD Vance in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate did an incredible job of not seeming “bizarre.” Sadly, he did it by mendacity by means of his tooth about himself and his working mate, former President Trump. (“JD Vance won the debate with Tim Walz, hands down,” Opinion, Oct. 1)
Did Trump save the Reasonably priced Care Act, as Vance stated in the course of the debate? No. That was Sen. John McCain’s downward-cast thumb when Trump tried to dismantle it.
Did Trump go away workplace peacefully? No. In actual fact, he referred to as the violent thugs who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, “very particular” and stated he beloved them. Now he calls those in jail “hostages” and needs to pardon them.
And Vance in 2022 did say abortion ought to be “unlawful nationally.” So sure, Vance received the controversy — towards himself and Trump.
Kathryn Jensen, Castaic
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To the editor: Jennings wrote that Trump was “convicted in New York Metropolis, mainly, for hooking up with a porn star 18 years in the past.”
False. Trump was convicted for crimes of falsifying enterprise data associated to an unlawful and untaxed cost his firm made to maintain that porn star quiet earlier than the 2016 election.
Trump’s dishonest with Stormy Daniels was immoral, however not unlawful. His unlawful contribution to his political marketing campaign, with the intent to cover his dangerous conduct and affect the election, was the factor that satisfied a jury of 12 that he was a criminal.
I agree with Jennings that Vance received the controversy primarily based on model and self-confidence. What Jennings failed to notice was that Vance very self-confidently lied.
James Wilterdink, Chula Vista
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To the editor: Now that you simply’ve allowed Jennings to step briefly out of his different world and proclaim the gorgeous deserves of Vance (whose cavalcade of lies within the vice presidential debate he sees as “clean, well-delivered arguments”), I’m questioning what’s subsequent.
To name Vance’s overtly expressed contempt for democracy and free-and-open elections as proof of deserving his place in American politics, I’m ready for Jennings to extol the deserves of consuming gasoline, stabbing oneself within the eyes and utilizing the U.S. Structure as bathroom paper.
Nick Duretta, Pasadena
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To the editor: In touting Vance’s debate efficiency, Jennings makes solely a passing reference to how Vance now sidesteps his previous criticisms of Trump by freely conceding that he as soon as was incorrect in regards to the former president.
As if Vance has come to see the proverbial gentle.
That facile protection begs for an improve. Search for Vance to piously be aware that 2019 was a revelatory 12 months for him: He transformed to the Catholic religion, and voiced his new-found reward for Trump’s presidency.
Ah, sure, because the gospel track goes, “I as soon as was blind, however now I see.” Solely query is whether or not Vance’s conversion was extra to Catholicism, or to Trumpism.
Roberta Helms, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg’s consciousness of the risks of reelecting Trump doesn’t imply that The Instances wants to indicate “stability” by printing Jennings’ screed in regards to the vice presidential debate.
Jennings is wise sufficient to know that Vance lied his approach by means of the controversy. However for him, like most present GOP figures, that doesn’t matter.
It’s not obligatory for The Instances to print an opinion supporting fascism to rebut an anti-fascist opinion for the sake of “stability.”
Paul Beck, Hermosa Seaside
