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I don’t trust Trump to be president

This election has been taking a toll on everyone in the United States. Why, you ask? I’m sure we all know why. We clearly don’t have the best of candidates running in this election, which only makes it that much important to vote this year more than ever.

I am not in favor of either candidate, but all I can say is that we certainly cannot afford to have Donald Trump run the country for the next four, possibly eight, years. No doubt that Hillary Clinton and Trump both carry heavy baggage from their past with them.

However, a candidate currently running to be the next potential president who seems to be less in headlines for political issues and more for entertainment, attention-seeking, racial and now sexual harassment allegations really seems like an issue to me. All of this is said with all due respect to the Trump voters.

Yes, maybe some of his policies may be decent/beneficial but a person who is just not humble and clean at heart and cannot respect himself or females just doesn’t have my trust as a person to begin with, let alone have my trust to be a president of this country.

Sammi Mondair, Fresno

This story was originally published November 7, 2016 at 12:35 PM with the headline "I don’t trust Trump to be president."

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