On Aug. 20, 2024, while campaigning for the presidency, Mr. Trump promised to “make America safe again.” And, with some local sheriff’s deputies standing with him, Mr. Trump promised that the police would “see support the likes of which you haven’t seen.”

One of Mr. Trump’s first actions after he swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution was to pardon over 1,100 people who had been convicted of, among other things, breaking into the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2020.

About 400 of those criminals had committed violent crimes on that day – attacking police officers with wooden and metal poles, spraying pepper spray in the faces of police officers, punching and choking police officers when those officers were on the ground, using stun guns multiple times on police officers, crushing police officers into door frames.

How did releasing those violent criminals make America safe again?

Then, Mr. Trump appointed an acting U.S. attorney, who promptly fired over a dozen prosecuting attorneys who had worked to put those violent criminals in jail for their assaults on police officers. How did firing those prosecuting attorneys make America safe again?

Now, the Trump administration is taking the names of FBI agents who gathered the facts which resulted in the convictions of those violent police attackers, for the announced purpose of firing many of them.

How will that make America safe again?

And then, Mr. Trump pardoned the guy who ran the Silk Road bitcoin drug dealing and money laundering operation. How did that make America safe again?

One thing Mr. Trump promised, though, has unarguably come true. The pardoning of criminals who assaulted police officers, the firing of lawyers who worked to bring those criminals to justice and the threatened firing of FBI agents who gathered the facts on those criminals is “support [of police] the likes of which you haven’t seen.”

How does this support of criminals over police make America safe again?

Gary Geffert, of Martinsburg