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We can't ignore campaign's dirty tricks

While President Obama and Hillary Clinton have somehow been able to accept Mr. Trump's victory, I am a little shocked that they don't want answers. If two percent of Americans had shifted votes, she would be president-elect (and the majority of Americans did vote for her, she had the plurality).

So would she have received that support if Director Comey hadn't played his damaging game with a fake email investigation? Was Mr. Trump complicit in the hacking of emails by Russians? Were news organizations so focused on their viewership or circulation opportunities that they couldn't put casual email discussions about strategy into the proper context?

What prompted the reckless journalism of the AP story that misrepresented the connections between the State Department meetings and donations to the Clinton Foundation?

Americans were conned by a faithless and juvenile phony. The disparity of wealth and unpatriotic religion of profits over people that prompted their anger will not be cured by a tax evader who uses bankruptcy as a business tactic.

We should not just let this go in the spirit of unity. The dirty tricks need to be exposed. We need to fight the concept that prejudice is a mainstream idea. We need to rise together to work against climate change, support renewable energy, and protect the environment.

Let the anger shift to the sensible among us.

David Troland

Arlington Heights

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