Letter: How can Utahns say we’re patriotic?
(AP Photo | Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In this July 16, 2018, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. Trump and Putin may have reached several historic agreements at their summit in Finland this week. Or, they may not have. Three days later no one is quite sure. With no details emerging from the leaders’ one-on-one discussion on Monday other than the vague outline they offered themselves, officials, lawmakers and the public in the United States in particular are wondering what, if anything, was actually agreed to.
“Utah has long stood as one of the nation’s most patriotic states,” David M. Winberg wrote in a two-page report lobbying the National Security Agency to build a computing center at Camp Williams. And further, “The people of Utah are committed to the principles and practices of maintaining and improving our national security.”
Winberg's quote appears ironically on the same day that Trump sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the FBI on matters of 2016 election interference and just five weeks after John Bolton eliminated the post of cybersecurity coordinator at the NSA. Let’s hear the outrage from all the patriotic Trump supporters in Utah as we watch our Republican delegation and traitorous excuse for a president sell the nation’s soul to a Russian adversary.
And what do our senators and congressional representatives have to say about this treasonous behavior? I can’t hear you. Oh, but by all means, keep selling off our public lands to foreign mining companies. These officials are all lacking in honor, in patriotism and in decency. Vote them out.
Heather E. Bruce, Salt Lake City
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