Editor, Gazette-Journal:
I’m dismayed by the many recent letters that perpetuate rumors and misinformation. For example, Trump claimed that Biden took money from FEMA for migrants and that FEMA is broke (FEMA workers’ lives were threatened over his other rumors); however, FEMA’s fiscal year began October 1 and it now has $20 billion in its Disaster Relief Budget, separate from and more than its budget for migrant programs. In 2019, Trump took $155 million from the DHS disaster fund to pay for migrant-related costs.
Writers worry about the economy, but forget that Trump kept our economy shut down by avoiding the COVID-19 crisis. The economy recovered under the Biden/Harris administration. Writers accuse Harris of being a communist or socialist, while 741 top ranking defense leaders endorse her, stating that the election is “a choice between democracy and authoritarianism” (businesswire.com 9/22/24). Now we know that Trump sent COVID-19 test kits to dictator Putin when our own country ne...