The Issue: President Trump using his $1.7 billion IRS settlement fund to compensate “victims of lawfare.”
Finally, the right sees the wrongs that President Trump is committing (“Isn’t ‘fund’ & games,” May 20).
Imagine using taxpayer money to pay people convicted in a court of law for fighting for you, who you’ve already pardoned. This is the most corrupt president in the history of the country. An absolute disgrace.
I am glad to see that many New York Post readers are condemning Trump’s staggering abuse of power and finally seeing the big picture. Trump needs to go.
Vince Sgroi
Valley Stream
Violent rioters were trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021 while being held back by brave police officers at the Capitol. Many officers were brutally beaten, and yet the justice that was achieved has been doubly undone via corrupt pardons and soon by payment from Trump’s IRS settlement fund.
People who would otherwise be in jail are now roaming free and gearing up to buy luxury cars and the like on our dime.
Our tax money is being stolen for corrupt and depraved reasons.
Jay Ess
Brooklyn
I am old enough to remember that Richard Nixon had to justify taking a free dog lest he be considered corrupt. Meanwhile, Trump takes billions of dollars. Republicans wouldn’t know integrity if it bit them in the face.
What dirt does Trump hold on his minions in Congress? He should’ve long since been impeached, removed from office and put in prison.
Bruce Ellis
Houston, Texas
Even worse than the infamous rioters’ presence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was their participation in violence that day.
It then became even more despicable with Trump’s presidential pardons, only to now be made unbelievably worse by the proposed payments to these desecrators of our democracy.
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
First, Trump sues the IRS for $10 billion. Second, he withdraws his lawsuit and settles for a reported $1.776 billion Justice Department alternative. Third, the president says he doesn’t know the details of the DOJ payout. Fourth, if you believe that, then I have a big, beautiful ballroom and blue reflecting pool I’d like to sell you.
Denny Freidenrich
Laguna Beach, Calif.
The Issue: New York lawmakers’ ban on cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE.
New York lawmakers have decided that state law can supersede federal law regarding immigration (“NY freezes out ICE,” May 22).
So, ICE agents — not the rapists and murderers let into this country — are the bad guys?
The only solution to such madness is to cut federal funds going to progressives who misuse them. Wake up, New York, and vote your way out of this mess.
Robert Mangi
Garden City
Gov. Hochul’s ruling on ICE in New York “handcuffs cops” — really?
NYPD officers spend six months in the Police Academy, many weeks in field training and 24 months on supervised probation. ICE agents, on the other hand, spend eight weeks in academy training and four weeks in field training.
Considering undocumented immigrants have significantly lower crime rates than US-born citizens (don’t sneer — Google it), I think Hochul’s ruling was exactly on target.
Carol Puttre-Czyz
Manhattan
Gov. Hochul’s anti-ICE law — which will attract the gangbangers, child molesters and drug dealers to New York — is nothing more than appeasement of President Trump’s haters.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
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