TRUMP: Scorpion in Chief

You won the presidential election but lost the popular vote by almost three million votes. If you had an iota of compromise you would know you are a minority ruler and act accordingly picking your cabinet and in governance.

But you live in a world of winners and losers. They lost. They’re suckers. You govern as if you have a mandate and exult in extremists. You love to antagonize anyone who voted against you.

Michael Flynn, your security chief, doesn’t last a month because he had illegal contact with the Russian Ambassador.

Russian Intelligence helped get you elected by spreading false news and by hacking Hillary’s emails and disclosing the inner workings of her campaign. This did not happen to your campaign.

You railed against Hillary’s emails, “Throw her in jail.” Your first month in office includes a much worse breach of protocol in Mar-a-Lago, while meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister.

You say nice things about Russia, unlike every other president in memory. It’s almost like you owe them something. The end of Michael Flynn is not the end what brought him down. There is a trail leading to your presidential campaign.

You know what is on that trail.

HARVEY SCHWARTZ

Bellingham, Wash.

(former 10-year Coeur d’Alene resident)