To the Editor:

I thought I had seen everything and then I watched CNN’s Jake Tapper question a double amputee war veteran’s commitment to democracy. Jake Tapper, on air, said, this man “lost his legs … fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know about his commitment to it here in the United States.”

The veteran he was referring to was Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida. The reason he questioned his commitment to democracy in the U.S.

January 27, 2021