To the editor:
It is long past time for President Trump’s supporters to wake up and smell the scorched Earth. Their omniscient leader—who doesn’t read and spends much his days watching Fox News, tweeting or playing golf—does not trust experts. If you had plumbing problems in your home, wouldn’t you call an expert?
While I’m sure there is bloat in every government agency, “trimming” one-third of the staff at the White House’s national security team is not trimming, it is purging.
Purging a vital department of honorable, knowledgeable and dedicated public servants is irresponsible and dangerous.
If their reason for supporting our wanna-be dictator is that the economy is doing great (and they might want to delve a little further into that), how will that protect us from national security failures?
Lynn Eames, Los Angeles
Note from KBJ: President Trump is doing exactly what we elected him to do, Lynn: drain the swamp. If you don't like it, elect someone else. By the way, we don't want our president to read. We want him to lead, and he's doing so spectacularly.
