Editor, Times-Union:
As a rule I do not engage with anyone responding to my letters. I would hope skeptics would do as I most strongly encourage everyone to do: fact check everything and everyone you question — me included. However, some would rather take the lazy way out and just “beg” me — twice — to provide my research and receipts for them. I am not going to do that. I did my research; you do yours. I spend hours, days, reading, listening, and gathering information. I am satisfied that what I offer in writing is true. Now you can do the same to try to disprove my findings.
I stated in my August 8 letter that the Heritage Foundation with the help of its bought and paid for Supreme Court (research Leonard Leo and his connection to Clarence Thomas) could — not definitively would — “very well see to it that the November election is our last election.” It seems apparent that Trump, backed by Heritage Foundation’s support of the “Big Lie” and his admiration for “strong” dictators who have managed to stay in power indefinitely, has concrete plans (Project 2025 and Agenda 47) to become a member of that “gang.” The Foundation’s 900+ page tome (which anyone can read online) plans to take aim at CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency whose job is to reduce dangerous online information relating to elections). With that agency out of the way, the Foundation could see to it that their easily manipulated new autocratic president — or his younger, more trainable replacement (check out J.D. Vance, as groomed by Peter Thiel) — and the incoming party of democracy destroyers would remain in office, in control, for a lifetime.
But, you say, Trump denies knowing anything about the Foundation’s brainchild, Project 2025. Uh huh. How about checking out some of these websites from both sides of the aisle:
1. www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations
2. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-moms-for-liberty-heritage-foundation-project-2025
3.www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/08/15/what-we-know-about-trumps-link-to-project-2025-as-author-claims-ex-president-blessed-it-in-secret-recording/
4. www.heritage.org/understandingtrumpism
5. www.opensecrets.org
6. www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/trump-allies-project-2025
Watch videos of Trump, Roberts, J.D. Vance, and others spelling out their plans in their own words. Read transcripts of their interviews, press conferences, and speeches. Go to factcheck.org, or truthorfiction.com, or fullfact.org, or snopes.com. Read Project 2025.
Do not trust social media platforms — Facebook, Truth Social, TikTok, Instagram, etc. as purveyors of truth unless you first determine who is declaring “truisms” and why. It seems anyone can post anything on these platforms. Some of it is true, and some of it is not.
Finally, Trump’s words, not mine: “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it any more …. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” My questions: What exactly will be fixed? Who exactly is “we”? Why wouldn’t anyone ever “have to vote again”?
Seems apparent to me.
Jeanne Tuka Schutz
Winona Lake, via email