The self-declared “very stable genius” and former social media influencer Donald Trump loves slavery and the lost cause of Robert E. Lee’s defeated Confederacy so much, he just can’t keep his ignorant mouth shut.

On Sept. 8, he said in regard to Afghanistan, “What an em- barrassment we are suffering because we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee.”

As a notoriously corrupt and frivolously litigious bankrupted businessman and legendary tax cheat who is infamous also for repeatedly refusing to pay his employees the wages they are legally entitled to, Mr. Trump knows a thing or two about forcing contractors and laborers to work for him without being paid for their labor.

It’s time to make traitor Trump pay for his crimes. Does any American who is not currently in a medically induced COVID-19 coma on a ventilator in a Republican-controlled state have any doubt whatsoever that Mr. Trump is a neo-Confeder- ate, neo-Nazi career criminal who belongs in Rikers Island prison instead of his truly tacky country club in Palm Beach?

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland needs to get a move on and slap the cuffs on Mr. Trump ASAP!

JAKE PICKERING

Arcata, Calif.