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 needed them urgently. People blame Biden for how he handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan, while 10 top defense leaders cite Trump’s “own ‘chaotic approach’ to Afghanistan ahead of the U.S. withdrawal, including negotiating a deal with the Taliban that allowed 5,000 of the group’s fighters to return to the battlefield” (Reuters.com, 9/9/24).

A writer said Harris is “dangerous,” but ignored the fact that Trump incited an insurrection, encouraged his followers to hang his vice president, and now has 34 felonies. Yet despite these and other ways he has endangered Americans, Trump’s supporters are blindly devoted to him.

I know there are many changes happening on different levels today, e.g., social, demographic and geopolitical. Change threatens our sense of security, and this fuels Trump’s rhetoric. Please let reason prevail with your vote!

Shahana Garner
Gloucester, Va.