Letter to the editor: Trump committed to his promises
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President-elect Donald Trump unburdened me of another great fear when it was announced Mike Pompeo would not be joining the Trump Cabinet.
For context, as CIA director in 2017-18, Pompeo plotted to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. And, more recently, Pompeo was caught on video dancing with Israeli soldiers as they celebrated the continued slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
This was the auspicious sign I needed to show me that perhaps Trump has learned from first-term missteps. By overlooking Pompeo, Trump is declaring loud and clear that conscienceless, war-itchy neocons — like Victoria Nuland, Liz Cheney and Pompeo — have no place within the ranks of this visionary administration.
But I also detect an honor-bound commitment to the pledges Trump made while campaigning, to men and women in hardhats, with calloused hands and weather-beaten work boots, and to that vast hopeful sea of resolutely supportive red caps.
In two such campaign promises, Trump vowed to end what he described as the indoctrination of schoolchildren and to deport the millions of illegal migrants waved in under President Biden’s watch.
The inference is that these will be more than Band-Aid fixes, that with his election mandate of winning the popular vote and gaining a Republican majority in Congress, Trump will overhaul the education system into a fountainhead of moral and academic excellence and sign into law immigration reforms that enhance America and that will impregnably safeguard against a future domestically engineered invasion.
Good luck, President-elect Trump. I know you won’t let us down.
Scott Hammond
Point Breeze