LETTER No proof that Trump said “s—holes”
President Trump has hurt the tender sensibilities of numerous snowflakes writing to the Observer-Reporter in recent days.
First of all, where is the proof that he actually made comments about “s—hole countries”? There’s no recording of it. The president has denied saying those words. Republican senators present in the room for a private meeting claim not to have heard him say it. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a proud graduate of the Bill and Hillary Academy of Lying, is the one who rushed to the nearest microphone and made the accusation. There were no reporters allowed into this meeting.
Where were all of these wagging tongues when President Lyndon Johnson said “I’ll have those n—ers voting Democratic for 200 years”? The source for this is Ronald MacMillan, an Air Force One steward who said Johnson uttered this comment to two governors during a conversation on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That sounds like racism to me.
Where were the wagging tongues when President Barack Obama said that “(British Prime Minister) David Cameron has allowed Libya to become a “s—show”?
But let’s, for the sake of argument, say that Trump did call those countries “s—holes.” He wasn’t talking about anything but the policies that made them that way, and we have liberalism/progressivism to thank for it.
I’ve been to the Dominican Republic, on the other side of the island of Hispaniola from Haiti. All of the resorts there are behind cinderblocked walls, topped with razor wire, not unlike federal prisons in the United States. When one checks into the hotel at one of these resorts, one is told to remain behind the walls and within the resort’s boundaries when going to the beach. Why do you think this might be? Are there nomadic bands of Girl Scouts ready to accost tourists and force them to purchase cookies?
What would you call such a country that had roving gangs of teenagers on motorbikes, seeking to rob and/or murder tourists? What would you call a country so depleted of money that contractors simply stop working and leave structures half assembled? What would you call a country so depleted of money that there’s only one or two paved roads in or out of any town?
John A. Quayle
North Franklin