Davis: 5 questions for Trump voters

I know some people who are voting for Donald Trump. Some of them are friends. So as we approach election day on Tuesday, I want to try one more time to see if they will change their minds about voting for Trump. I have five questions. They can be answered “yes” or “no.” No “buts” are needed.

1. Do you agree with Donald Trump’s criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “disaster” and calling him an “idiot”?
2. Do you agree with Donald Trump’s mocking of those who wear masks to protect themselves and others from infection by coronavirus — including mocking Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham for wearing a mask and being “politically correct.”
3. Do you agree with Donald Trump when he admitted privately in a taped conversation with author and journalist Bob Woodward that the COVID was “dangerous” but then, shortly after, lying to the public to avoid “panic” and downplaying the risk — predicting the virus would “disappear” like “miracle”? And Mr. Trump‘s denials continue to this day — while he holds rallies with most people crowded together and not wearing mask, risking their lives and those who may be infected with COVID by them after the rallies?
4. Do you agree with President Trump, after he heard public reports that the Russians paid bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. forces in Afghanistan, when he failed to criticize the Russians publicly — and never once asked Putin publicly whether this was true?
5. Do you think that Donald Trump did enough to find the parents of the 545 children separated from them at the border in 2018 — and still the parents have not been located two years later — thanks to Mr. Trump’s admitted own“zero tolerance” policy, resulting in those separations?

To repeat: Each of these questions are based on facts that are indisputably true, all a matter of public record. The question is: How could your answer be anything but “No.”

My second question is: If your answers are no, how can you possibly vote for Donald Trump for reelection?

Davis served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton (1996-98) and served as a member of President Bush’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. He is co-founder of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper and the strategic media and crisis management firm Trident DMG.  He authored “Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics and Life” (Scribner Threshold 2013).