Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Animal Logic II (1991).

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Freedom of the press, that precious, sacred freedom on which our democracy is so dependent for its continuing existence, is continually being derided and threatened by our President Donald J. Trump.

Without freedom of the press, the Nazi symbols displayed at Charlottesville, Va., which President Trump lauded with his “there are good people on both sides,” would have gone unnoticed by all of our citizens.

The plight of undocumented immigrants waiting patiently near San Diego with no food, lodging or sufficient U.S. immigration personnel to promptly consider their request for asylum would have been ignored. Trump even referred haughtily to the situation in a campaign-style speech to his base as “that mess at our border.”

Democracy must be protected. It must be respected. We cannot allow Donald J. Trump to continue as our president. His total disregard for freedom of the press, his preference for authoritarianism, his acceptance of Nazism, his disregard for the plight of people with inadequate income and food and those who are oppressed, his reckless push to eliminate regulations that are essential for the protection of the population, his refusal to acknowledge global warming, his isolationism, his dishonesty, his lack of diplomacy—clearly not the description of a person in whom we should entrust our wonderful United States of America.

Our U.S. Constitution does empower Congress to remove Trump from the presidency. Congress now must act before irreparable harm is done to our wonderful but fragile democracy.

Robert L. Levin • Clayton

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

The 13 Angry Democrats in charge of the Russian Witch Hunt are starting to find out that there is a Court System in place that actually protects people from injustice…and just wait ‘till the Courts get to see your unrevealed Conflicts of Interest!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2018

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Here are highlights from Stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia.

To the editor:

Let me gun-splain why you can't carry a firearm if you go hear President Trump address the National Rifle Assn. on Friday. ("No guns but plenty of protesters expected when Trump addresses NRA convention," April 30)

This is The Man we're talking about, The Donald, Arbiter of the Truth, Sayer of Sayings, not some whiny school kids or uptight church attendees or seedy concert-goers who don't need protecting.

If thousands of good guys with guns tried to save Trump from a bad guy with a gun, the high "collateral" casualty rate could put a crimp in the flow of dollars to uncounted numbers of politicians, and we know they rate higher than a few kids here and there.

Brian Bland, Santa Monica