The alternative made voting for Trump a necessity

Kudos to Jack D. Jones for his response to Jim Lockwood in the May 21 Daily Inter Lake regarding how anyone could vote for Donald Trump for president. Mr. Jones is what America needs more of — MUCH more of — true patriots who will stand up and say what needs to be said despite the likelihood of offending some neighbor.

Jim Lockwood said that I would not put Donald Trump on a local school board nor invite him into my home. He surely doesn’t speak for me.

The 2016 election was between Trump and Hillary Clinton. Mr. Lockwood mentions that Clintongot more overall votes. Whiny brats are the reason the Constitution writers gave us the Electoral College. They didn’t mean for us to be a democracy, but we’re taught we are. Lockwood writes as if he believes political experience is required. Hillary Clinton has a lot of that, and that will be addressed. He also cites Donald Trump’s lack of military service. Evidently Clinton’s political experience takes the place of that. He also mentions Trump’s long history of exploiting others. I never heard that mentioned until he entered the political arena. Evidently Clinton’s brand of exploiting others is A-OK. He called President Trump’s executive orders unconstitutional. Which ones? Must be the ones on the travel ban. How are they unconstitutional? Mr. Lockwood cites no article or clause, and seems to be uninformed about INA: ACT 212 – General classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible for admission; waivers of inadmissibility, Sec. 212. [8 U.S.C. 1182, (3)(B) Terrorist Activities, (ll), which mandates the exclusion from entry of anyone “a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, is engaged in or is likely to engage after entry in any terrorist activity.”

I voted for Donald Trump because I had the choice between a man who made off-color remarks and a woman who was central in the death of four Americans and the ensuing cover-up. Additionally, Donald Trump spoke to my frustration with Washington when no other politician does. Trump ran as an outsider, the very thing I want. I could object to some of his remarks if I thought it mattered, but again, the alternative was Hillary Clinton, and if the Trump mouth is needed to blow political correctness out of the water, I’m 100 percent behind his remarks. Add to this that Donald Trump ran on policies I want, and Clinton ran on nothing but being our first female president, totally a social reason, and totally unrelated to any issues we face as a nation. She’s the one I would not invite into my home, and I’d order her off my property, at gunpoint if need be.

This is about the level of corruption in Washington. I do like the way President Trump called out the justices who want to sacrifice the safety of Americans for the sake of some “inclusiveness,” as if foreigners who may want to come here to kill people for religious reasons are welcome. Not in my book. I do understand that according to the liberal mindset, that makes me Islamophobic. I take that as a compliment.

One example of the distraction and obfuscation by the Deep State/media is the perpetual waste of our tax dollars on where Barack Obama was born, as if his place of birth is the only factor in determining his natural-born status. Americans are so ignorant of the natural-born clause that Ted Cruz is able to parade himself as a constitutional expert, when in fact he is so obviously not a natural-born citizen that a 5-year-old would see it. So-called conservatives are included here, and not just liberals.

When I posted about this, I was called a liar. The father of a candidate must be an American citizen. Simple research into the meaning of the clause shows this was what the writers meant when they wrote the Constitution. Since it’s an enumerated clause, any deviation from the original intent requires an Article V Amendment, which we haven’t seen, and instead, it gets claimed that a citizen mother is all that’s needed, when in fact women didn’t even have the right to vote when the Natural Born Citizen Clause was written into the Constitution. Women became citizens by overture, marriage to a citizen husband. Those who object that the natural-born citizen isn’t defined by the Constitution need to tell us where their citizen mother only requirement came from.

By his own admission, Barack Obama’s father is a Kenyan. Further insulting our intelligence, in 2008, John McCain was held to the citizen parents (BOTH parents) requirement, but Obama was given a pass, and McCain said nothing. See Senate Resolution 511. Every Legislator seated in 2008 and 2012 gave tacit approval to a foreign usurper, allowing Obama to further the social discord under the pretense of racism, not to mention his preferential treatment of Muslims. They’re all guilty of dereliction of duty. FYI, both Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton sat on Senate Resolution 511. She could have easily dispatched Barack Obama in the 2008 primary. Political experience is synonymous with corruption.

Knutson is a resident of Dayton.