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Roughly 65 percent of voters said the guilty verdict will not sway them following Donald Trump’s recent trial.
But I refuse to believe voters assume any trial in which a jury convicts Trump of a crime based upon evidence beyond a reasonable doubt is inherently rigged.
I refuse to believe voters will support a man promising to unilaterally change the Constitution, abandon NATO, and encourage Russian aggression.
I refuse to believe voters will lionize a former commander-in-chief who reportedly denigrated World War I Marine dead in France as “suckers” and “losers” and uses Nazi language.
I refuse to believe voters will ignore the actions of a man found liable for sexual abuse that ruined a woman’s personal life.
I refuse to believe voters will endorse a candidate who I believe incited an insurrection in which police died, allegedly stole and withheld top-secret documents, and pressured a state official in Georgia to manufacture votes for him.
I refuse to believe voters will abandon the commitment to freedom and democracy for which so many American men and women gave their lives from the Revolution through World War II.
Finally, I refuse to believe Maine voters specifically, who have traditionally lived according to the ethical code of accountability for one’s actions, will champion a politician who seems to lack moral character.
Dave Witham
Bangor
