There's no place for violence in politics. Trump's lies and rhetoric must stop. | Letters

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There is no place in politics for violence. That said, the former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of this stuff on himself. When he continues to push lies about legal immigrants like the ones in Springfield, Ohio; when he continues to insist he was not the loser of the 2020 election; when he continues to spout how he wants to use our military to "round up" and deport immigrants who are not white from this country, he brings the crazies out, and one of those crazies tries to shoot him.

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One thing Trump can do to reduce the chance that one of these crazies will attempt to assassinate him is to stop charging the American people thousands of dollars per night for his Secret Service protectors to stay at his Trump-owned properties, as reported by NPR and other news outlets. (I am sure each agent has their own room, too.) Those excess monies can then be used to put more Secret Service agents on his protection detail. Otherwise, why should the American people continue to put out extra millions for protection that is only needed because the former president can't keep from lying and bringing these issues on himself?

Felicia Duncan, Sharonville

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