To the editor:

It is essential for the future of our country that we pull ourselves out of the Biden corrupt, incompetent and vitriolic morass.

My dozen compelling reasons why Trump is the only logical option, are as follows:

• No. 1: He doesn’t need the money and can’t be corrupted — none of his kids are on the board on any company in Ukraine.

• No. 2: He is a businessman and knows how to manage a budget. For example, he has implemented tariffs to safeguard our industries — look at the demise of our steel valley after the Democrats failed to protect us or look at the Democrats incompetence with the $800 million Solyndra “investment.” Don’t get me started.

• No. 3: Trump is decisive, e.g., close the border, build the pipeline and toss out all illegals — specifically the criminals and terrorists.

• No. 4: As a commander-in-chief none of the despots out there will cross the line and he will make sure that our military is the strongest, best-equipped and feared in the whole world — goodbye Yemen.

• No. 5: He has made sure that the Europeans pay their required share for their defense.

• No. 6: He reduced corporate taxes, thus boosting investment and reduced personal taxes so y’all have more money in your pocket.

• No. 7: Trump will implement a sensible immigration policy that attracts investment and desirable skills with the EB-5 program and keep out criminals.

• No. 8: He protects our Constitution, starting with the Second Amendment.

• No. 9: He keeps our enemies, like Iran, Somalia, China or North Korea in line with punitive economic, and, if necessary, physical actions. The U.S. will be, no must be, feared again after those catastrophic failures, i.e., the Democrat’s display of weakness, in Benghazi and Afghanistan.

• No. 10: He has made sure that our currency is the strongest internationally. When Trump was in office I paid $.89 for one Euro. Now, underscoring our economic weakness, under the Biden disaster, I now have to pay $1.16 for one Euro. This is a 30 percent drop in value of the dollar! This makes a Boeing 30 percent more expensive than an Airbus.

•No. 11: Lastly, I work in Europe about four months every year where we now are the laughingstock of the world with the Biden cabal and that joke of a vice president running against Trump. When Trump is back in office, the world will be safer and your U.S. passport will be respected for the magnificent country it represents.

≤ No. 12: Trump’s track record and love for our country, during his first term, was exemplary.

Please, my fellow American citizens — don’t drag us through the Democrats’ cesspool for another four years. Thank you.

P.S.: Oh, OK, his personality … don’t worry about that. The goal is not to win the charm contest but to kick butt and get us back on the preeminent track we deserve.

Peter M. Sontag

Steubenville