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Letter: What if it had been a train full of Democrats?

Emergency personnel inspect the lead engine of an Amtrak train that was carrying multiple Republican lawmakers that crashed into a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town Wednesday. (Zack Wajsgras/The Daily Progress via AP)

Emergency personnel inspect the lead engine of an Amtrak train that was carrying multiple Republican lawmakers that crashed into a garbage truck in Crozet, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018. A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town Wednesday. (Zack Wajsgras/The Daily Progress via AP)

By  Blair Bateman | The Public Forum
 | Feb. 4, 2018, 11:00 a.m.
| Updated: 2:25 p.m.

Regarding the report that a train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers, including Sen. Mike Lee, to a retreat featuring speeches from President Trump and Vice President Pence:

If this had happened to a train full of Democrats traveling to hear a speech by President Obama, I can’t help thinking that Republicans would have been saying it was an act of God.

Blair Bateman, Provo

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