In Minnesota, Republicans removed from a funding bill provisions for Internet privacy ("Internet privacy provisions removed from Minnesota bill," May 1).
In Wisconsin and in many states, Republicans gerrymandered voting districts to resemble jigsaw puzzles so that no matter how many votes Democrats got Republicans would win. One young Wisconsin Republican quit when he realized what the party was doing.
President Donald Trump lies constantly, including that he had more people at his inauguration than President Barack Obama. Photos clearly showed Obama had considerably more. They say that if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it.
I'm so tired of people saying; "Give Trump a chance." A chance to do what? Destroy everything that's in place to protect low-income citizens, such as health care, education, and the environment? He is not giving a chance to anyone who isn't rich or a corporation.
Trump complained about Obama's trips to Hawaii, but Trump is on pace to spend more in his first year on travel than Obama did in 8 years, according to CNN and others. Trump spent $98 million on his military toys to bomb Syria and Afghanistan, Daily Kos reported.
ADVERTISEMENT
He drained the intellectuals from the "swamp" and filled it with Wall Street bankers, the rich and incompetents like him.
Trump invited to our White House Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, a murderer who bragged about killing.
He said he'd meet other tyrants and murderers, including Kim Jong Il.
To put the frosting on his latest cake, in reference to slavery, Trump disparaged President Abraham Lincoln and questioned the Civil War. Had Andrew Jackson (his hero) been there, Trump suggested, he would have taken care of it. As usual, Trump doesn't seem to know that of which he speaks. He sullied President Lincoln's White House by inviting tyrants and murderers and by his very own presence.
Mabel Galvin
Duluth
