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Letters to the Editor: Trump's $5,000 pledge flies in the face of all of our democracy's principles
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Sep 19, 2026

Letters to the Editor: Trump's $5,000 pledge flies in the face of all of our democracy's principles

'Hopefully, the vast majority of Americans will remember it wasn't that long ago, in the self-proclaimed "greatest democracy in the world," that people actually voted for free, without any expectation of a $5,000 reward for doing so,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Source: latimesPublished: Sep 19, 2026

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