Re: “Democratic leaders must reckon with the Biden coverup<\/a>,” May 25 commentary<\/p>\n I am angry at Doug Friednash and furious at Jake Tapper. Joe Biden is no longer president and has now been diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer. Do we need to beat a dead horse? I recently asked a friend, \u201cWhat purpose is Jake Tapper\u2019s tell-all book about Biden except to enrich his own wallet and time in the spotlight?\u201d<\/p>\n I will not read his book, and it is terrible to demean and ridicule a man who served in the public spotlight for five decades, who lost a wife and daughter in a terrible car crash, and one of two sons to brain cancer, and now will be fighting a deadly disease. Can he just be left alone to die in peace?<\/p>\n The piling on to Biden is even more mystifying when Trump has been impeached twice, found liable for sexual abuse, knowingly prompted an attack on the U.S. Capitol while his supporters chanted \u201cHang Mike Pence,\u201d and then pardoned these insurrectionists and other convicted criminals to go back out into the streets (see Bannon, Stone, etc.)<\/p>\n Friednash has \u201cjumped on the bandwagon\u201d of blame. Does it matter now? The results of the 2024 election (Trump) will be harmful to 90% of the U.S. population as the effects unfold, and history will be not be kind to this administration. They are unqualified hucksters, with a lawyer overseeing all medical decisions of trained doctors, and a Director of Homeland Security that has only the vaguest knowledge about the Constitution and U.S. laws. The attorney general is a puppet who spouts verbatim the same nonsense that Karoline Leavitt does, verbiage that has nothing to do with actual facts.<\/p>\n Looking backward accomplishes nothing at this point. Let the man die in peace. He served his country well, perhaps waning in his last years. No one talks about Trump\u2019s decline, which is also evident to all, and is also being covered up by every single sycophant in his administration and the GOP Congress. It\u2019s obvious in the exact same way Biden\u2019s was.<\/p>\n Wendy Hall,\u00a0Buena Vista<\/em><\/p>\n Was President Joe Biden\u2019s physical and mental condition \u201cconcealed\u201d from us? Most likely. Although not justified, this would not be the first time a president\u2019s condition while in office was hidden from the public.<\/p>\n Woodrow Wilson was partially paralyzed, and his wife secretly acted as president<\/a>. Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack after golfing<\/a> in Colorado and Crohn\u2019s disease. George H. W. Bush had Graves\u2019 disease<\/a>. Chester A. Arthur had a sever kidney disease<\/a>. Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer\u2019s disease and many speculate he had his first symptoms<\/a> while in office. Grover Cleveland had jaw cancer.<\/p>\n None of these, including the issue of Biden\u2019s health are criminal or illicit. But the cover-ups of Donald J. Trump are. After the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump labelled it a \u201cDay of Love\u201d, even though more than 140 police officers were injured, four committed suicide within a year, and there was over $2.7 million in damages. Since then, he pardoned 1,500 of the rioters who already pleaded guilty or were convicted and serving jail time. False facts to obscure and shroud that January 6, 2021, was an insurrection.<\/p>\n In the summer of 2023, he tried to delete Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage to obstruct the Justice Department\u2019s investigation into his removing classified, \u201cTop Secret\u201d documents from the White House. In early 2024, Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts because he covered up crimes in his business records. Two more cover-ups.<\/p>\n