Dear Editor,
Since the revelation that Donald Trump, Jr. met with a Russian attorney claiming connections to the Kremlin, a meeting where he was supposed to receive “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, we have heard a unified message from those who support Mr. Trump. That message is simple, and it is reported often: no crime.
I will repeat the details of that proposed meeting again, details that Donald Trump, Jr. has admitted to: Donald Trump, Jr. met with a person, a person claiming to have direct connections to a hostile foreign government, in hopes that said person would deliver material that would help his father win the election.
The fact that no information was delivered is secondary. What is important is the fact that a person involved in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign willingly agreed to meet with a person claiming to represent a hostile power in hopes of changing the outcome of the election.

We are told that everyone does ‘opposition research’ and that is quite true. What that research has never before involved was a willingness to accept material supplied by a hostile foreign government.
We are told that it was a ‘mistake’ of an inexperienced political operative… but what sort of ‘experience’ do you have to have to know that you never, ever accept the help of a foreign government to influence the outcome of our elections?
The most troubling of all is the fact this is being dismissed as an ‘honest mistake’ by the same people who frequently claimed that Hillary Clinton lacked a ‘moral compass,’ It shows, in the end, where their loyalties lie. Their loyalty lies not with America and its traditions of honest elections, but with the idea of gaining power, of winning no matter what it takes.
That is not ‘making America great,’ and is dragging America down to the level of a third-world dictatorship.
Andrew Reynolds
Rochelle