To the editor:
Relating to “Trump to pay $355 million nice in New York case” (entrance web page, February 17):
It’s clear that Donald Trump is an inveterate mockery and can proceed to be; he reveals no indicators of regret. As he has instructed us in some ways, he’ll proceed this conduct no matter his return to political energy.
However too many individuals are on his conduct; he’ll spend the remainder of his life being tried for his continued peccadilloes. He would do nicely to take his dwindling bag of marbles and retire to his kingdom in Florida whereas he can nonetheless take pleasure in being a bit king, clothed or not.
Frederick Nicholas Naphtolin
Woodbridge, Conn.
To the editor:
The huge fines and authorized charges incurred by Donald Trump could also be designed to vary his conduct, however they will not. He most likely sees them as fundraising alternatives. A donation of simply $15 from half of the 74 million individuals who voted for him in 2020 would save him and allow much more fraud and defamation.
In case you are contemplating a donation to the Republican Nationwide Committee or Mr. Trump, please save your cash. To make use of a favourite Republican mantra, it is time to “starve the beast.”
Jay Lynch
Pittsburgh
To the editor:
So as to keep a wholesome banking system and a wholesome economic system, you will need to debunk Donald Trump’s persistent declare that his fraudulent asset valuations had been innocent as a result of they triggered no monetary hurt to his lenders.
If we sit on our arms and do nothing as debtors and banks take out and make loans with overvalued belongings, we improve the catastrophic danger of a financial institution going bancrupt resulting from inadequate, overvalued collateral to safe giant loans if and when a default happens.
Tolerance of it is a risk to the banking system as an entire and to the nationwide economic system, as a result of what begins as a single financial institution failure can metastasize right into a cascade of banking system failures.
The elevated catastrophic danger to the nationwide economic system is way from innocent.
William August
Cambridge, Mass.