From Wikipedia: “White House scholars and other students of government agree there has never been a president like Donald Trump, whose volume of falsehoods, misstatements and serial exaggerations” are unparalleled.” “A Fact Checker column tallied untrue or misleading statements, with the database reaching 20,000 on July 9, 2020.”
From Tehillim 119: שקר שנאתי, ואתעבה; תורתך אהבתי, I hate falsehood, I despise it;
שָׂנֵאתִי כָּל-אֹרַח שָׁקֶר, I hate every way of falsehood,
דֶּרֶךְ-שֶׁקֶר, הָסֵר מִמֶּנִּי, Remove the way of falsehood from me
Aren’t we told that Hashem’s stamp is truth? Can someone explain to me how a gadol or anyone who bases his life on Torah support someone who’s life has been so riddled with sheker, or believe that he would have any genuine help from Heaven? Maybe there’s something I don’t see, I would like to be shown it. True, the other side affiliates with positions we don’t always like, but …
Several other issues that seem critical to me:
1) Trump would get rid of the ACA, which has saved many many lives (presumably many of them Jewish lives), especially in the current pandemic.
2) Trump denies global warming, which is accelerating and has already upended millions of lives (Harvey and Irma to name but a few instances) and is expected to wreck major havoc on the world in many increasing ways in the future. His sympathies are with the oil billionaires and not with the people whose homes and lives have been and stand to be destroyed.
3) Many, many prominent Republicans, including many diplomats and intelligence people, are supporting Biden, something unprecedented in history. Those who voted for Romney note that he’s voting for Biden.
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