This is a copy of a letter I sent to Ohio Senator Rob Portman:
Dear Senator Portman,
On June 16, 2015 Donald Trump said this about Mexicans,
“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Mexican-Americans were outraged. Were you? If you weren’t, shame on you.
When he said, “I assume” he hedged. He is casting doubt on the “are good people” part and asserting that his false and ignorant statement that “They’re rapists.” is true.
His statement is outrageous and bigoted. If you can’t see that, then you have a serious problem.
He played to the fundamental bigotry endemic in his supporters.
It worked. He got elected.
Were you stunned? If not, you should have been. Could you not see how he was and is manifestly unfit to hold the office of president?
He then added,
“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
Two problems with this:
1. The idea of a wall running the length of our border is patently absurd and folly.
2. The idea of making a foreign country pay for it is beyond belief.
He has made this claim numerous times during the campaign and after his election.
He must think they are swarming over our border by the millions and millions like the Chinese crossing the Yalu river into Korea.
With a few exceptions, Republican members of Congress have either been mute or supportive of him. It would seem that their agenda is more important than the will of their constituents.
Now he wants Congress to fund the wall with AMERICAN TAXPAYER’S MONEY!!!!!
He’s demanding “no wall, no DACA.” He’s basically holding the fate of 700,000 Dreamers hostage over his demand that WE PAY FOR THE WALL!!!
If you support the president on this, your fate is sealed.
I only wish that you could be up for election this year so you can go down in flames because you didn’t have the balls to stand up for your constituents and oppose this idiot.