Just when readers of Armstrong Williams’ column can almost be convinced that he knows what he’s talking about, he throws in a clunker like “How Trump can secure swing voters and win the 2024 election” (July 14).

Not only does Williams toss around fictitious “facts” (“The GOP has long treasured the environment.” Really? Since when?), but he also repeats lies promulgated by Trump, such as how “tens of thousands of terrorists and drug traffickers who are illegally crossing our borders to kill and rape citizens and create mayhem” (Some certainly, but nowhere near “tens of thousands”).

He also advocates that Trump promise things that no one can legitimately claim possible (“a moonshot to stop global warming through cold fusion that will not diminish the economic riches of his core supporters”). He also recommends that the greatest liar of modern politics lie even more by promising “limitless jobs, upward social mobility, domestic harmony and fraternity and an end to politics of personal destruction.”

Ha! Expecting this from the country’s worst initiator of the “politics of personal destruction.”

Who does Williams think he’s kidding? I realize that criticizing Trump and his supporters the day after a lunatic attempted to kill him isn’t too smart, but letting these absurd claims slide by without an editor picking them apart isn’t smart either.

— Harris Factor, Columbia

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