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Trump maligned

Once again, Leonard Pitts, Jr. spits his outrageous bile against President Trump, by saying that he is “a lying, narcissistic, manifestly incompetent child man who is a dumb as a sack of mackerel.”

How patently unfair and demonstrably untrue. I am certain that my distaste for President Obama exceeds Pitts’ hatred for Trump. But had I written anything close to Pitts’ bashing, I would certainly have been excoriated as a racist.

There was one sign of hope here, when Pitts writes: “I am done asking — or caring — what’s wrong with him.” However, I’m certain as soon as it’s time for Pitts to buy groceries, he again will unleash his outlandish animosity.

Buddy Newman,

Coral Gables

This story was originally published July 18, 2017 at 9:10 PM with the headline "Trump maligned."

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