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Trump’s immorality

Letter writer Sander Poritzky says that, “The Trump name symbolizes integrity and morality.” Was it moral when Donald Trump was publicly wooing his soon-to-be second wife while still married to his first wife? Two divorces and three wives is moral?

Was it a display of integrity when Trump declared bankruptcy four times and left thousands of investors holding the bag?

Was it integrity or morality when the prep-school baseball whiz suddenly came up lame for the Vietnam draft, with a bone spur? This “disability” never interfered with his playing baseball or his lifetime of playing golf.

Of course, why worry about a commander in chief who dodged the draft? Look at the bang-up job done by this entire cabal of Vietnam dodgers — George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton — when they had the keys to the war machine.

Craig W. Geary, Redlands

This story was originally published April 19, 2016 at 6:54 PM with the headline "Trump’s immorality."

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