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Letter: Remember Trump’s many misdeeds

President Donald Trump gestures as he signs a "Space Policy Directive" during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watches. AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Soon after the presidential election in 2016, nearly all of the Republican senators and members of Congress who had soundly rejected Donald Trump after the release of the “Access Hollywood” video only a few weeks before were now endorsing him, prostrating themselves in his presence and over eager to do his bidding. “Give him a chance,” they said, “he will change and become presidential.”

Now, 500-plus days into his presidency, Trump has shown no evidence of changing from the low-life, dishonest, lying, scheming cheat that he was before the election and during his entire life. He is nothing more than a showman, a provocateur, an unqualified, unstudied, ignorant, bigoted fool of a man who has collected an equally defective Cabinet to surround and lavish him with obsequious, fawning approval.

No amount of political spin can deny Trump’s countless mistakes nor the thousands of lies he has put forth. Remember his hateful speech on the day he announced his candidacy, remember Charlottesville, the Paris Accords, NAFTA, Puerto Rico, turning his back on our NATO allies and neighboring countries while invoking poorly thought-out tariffs that will damage the global economy.

Remember the separation of families that is ongoing at the border as I write this and so many more instances of his incompetence that are too numerous to list. Remember the senators, members of Congress and state legislators who continued to voice their support for Trump and those who only weakly offered any short-term dissent; vote them all out of office this

November. The time for honesty and integrity in our state and national government is now.

Eventually, the Mueller investigation will reach its conclusion; we can then look forward to Trump’s humiliation, removal from office and financial ruin.

On that day, America will begin the lengthy job of repairing the damage to our country, its national prestige and standing in the global community.

Jonathan C. Seegmiller, Salt Lake City