Dear Editor,
Two weeks ago, a former president and leading political candidate was nearly assassinated. For a brief moment, political pundits, television hosts, and celebrities retracted their baseless claims that President Trump was a modern-day Hitler and wished him well, ultimately confessing their accusations were manufactured, designed only to instill fear to get votes. Unfortunately, they have since returned to their aggressive and unfounded rhetoric in their desire to win this historic race.
Montanans usually remain uninfluenced by their inflaming oratory due to our disdain of being told how to think. We prefer to see reality and act accordingly. This quality not only gives us our frontier ingenuity, but truly makes Montana the last best place because we’ll be the last state to be told what to do.
However, it is disconcerting, to say the least, hearing former Montana Supreme Court Justice James C. Nelson’s statement on the assassination attempt on President Trump. He expressed that the attempt was the result of Trump’s “bad karma” and that there would be no well wishes from him. Such partisan, hateful and read more
