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The Issue: Miranda Devine’s file accusing the near of stoking unit done anti-Trump rhetoric.
After comparisons to Hitler and accusations that he’s a menace to democracy, however could you not expect determination to beryllium attempts connected erstwhile President Donald Trump’s beingness (“Foes enactment people connected Don,” Miranda Devine, Sept. 16)?
Alongside this, wherefore is it that erstwhile Trump says the connection “bloodbath,” it is assumed that helium virtually wants one?
But erstwhile President Biden says that it’s “time to enactment Trump successful a bull’s-eye,” past that is meant metaphorically and indispensable beryllium taken successful discourse — not literally?
Charles Sitero
Ormond Beach, Fla.
What astir the reckless rhetoric from nary different than Trump himself?
He has sown the seeds of craziness and it has each travel backmost to haunt him.
He’s a marked antheral by galore of the radical helium has pushed implicit the borderline with his hateful speech, racism, misogyny and lies.
He’s liable for bringing this shooting connected himself.
Hank DePerro
Manhattan
The Democrats request to code down their provocative and unsafe remarks astir Trump, arsenic the shooting fishy was espousing their hateful statements that Trump is simply a information to democracy.
Harold Fishman
Manhattan
It appears the wannabe assassin was a rabid anti-Trumper spurred connected by leftist media.
Trump gets blamed for each convulsive transgression by idiosyncratic who is far-right, adjacent though his rhetoric has ne'er called for specified violence.
This, dissimilar the lunatic near that calls him a fascist and compares him to Hitler.
Those connected the near should beryllium held liable for their hateful code aft the latest effort connected Trump’s life.
Charlie Honadel
Venice, Fla.
Yes, the Democrats and progressive media person called Trump a menace to democracy, and that is inappropriate.
Yet Trump, his vice statesmanlike campaigner JD Vance and galore successful right-wing media person castigated Kamala Harris and the Democrats arsenic Marxists who hatred America and privation to destruct it.
So if idiosyncratic were to beryllium radicalized from this and took a changeable astatine Harris, would The Post likewise denounce Trump and right-wing media for spreading apocalyptic speech astir Harris and her party?
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
The Issue: The 60% summation successful New York subway murders this twelvemonth that is nearing a grounds high.
The execution complaint connected the subway has soared by 60%, yet each clip Mayor Adams holds a property conference, helium has “Safest Big City successful America” printed connected his backdrop (“Subway slay surge,” Sept. 15).
At what constituent is idiosyncratic successful the media going to situation him and constituent retired that the numbers he’s telling the nationalist are wrong, and that transgression successful the metropolis is simply a existent problem?
Rob Cerone
Manhattan
In effect to rising convulsive transgression successful the subway, the NYPD antecedently deployed implicit 1,000 other officers and the National Guard added 750 soldiers to the subway.
Sounds good.
But what is the strategy?
When I participate a presumption and walk respective constabulary officers and National Guardsmen adjacent the turnstiles, and yet fewer connected the platforms oregon patrolling the trains, 1 has to question the crippled program and effectiveness of this deployment.
As convulsive transgression continues to emergence connected the subway, our enactment needs to revise their plan.
John Cornicello
Lynbrook
So aft much cops were deployed to the subway successful a bid to combat crime, each we’ve gotten is simply a shooting incidental that near 4 radical wounded by NYPD gunfire and a 60% summation successful convulsive crime?
Arthur Gutman
Great Neck
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