Recently our president went on another of his Twitter rants, this time disparaging four women of color, all members of Congress, encouraging them to go back from where they came. The next day he doubled down, calling them racist and anti-Semitic.
At his rally in North Carolina, his rhetoric incited his mob into a frenzy and resulted in chants of “send her back,” referring to one of these women, Somali-born U.S citizen and U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. He reveled in the moment.
Meanwhile the public and the media were distracted from his long association with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Another week in Trump world.
After all this, the best our courageous Congressmen Chris Stewart, Rob Bishop and John Curtis could do is issue a joint statement calling for “civility on both sides.” How bold of them.
Trump is a racist and a white supremacist and it is time for our congressional delegation to have the courage and the decency to call him out.
Jeff Polychronis, Salt Lake City
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