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Letter: Don’t forget the pain of the Trump years

(Susan Walsh | AP photo) In this June 30, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea.

Barbra Streisand once sang to us in her famous song, “The Way We Were,” that “What is too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.” Nevertheless, we citizens of the United States of America should not forget the carnage President Donald J. Trump brought our country.

We should create a scrapbook of memories regarding the corruption, lies, unhinged policies, chaos, lost lives and debt he has left us with as he makes his shameful exit from the White House.

Think of the people he did care about, like Paul Manafort, disgraced general Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Charles Kushner and many more. They all received pardons for their criminality. On the other side of the ledger, recall what happened to the children who were put in cages and lost because of a broken immigration system rampant with racism and xenophobia.

Remember, too, the Americans who lost their homes, jobs and successful futures because Trump went golfing at Mar-A-Lago instead of working on a bill to help them during a historic pandemic which took thousands of lives. This was part of a pattern of going golfing instead of working.

Think about Trump’s ties to Russian oligarch Vladimir Putin and his avowed love for the Communist leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, when the billionaire citizen asks for money from his base to run for the presidency again.

Finally, we might want to compartmentalize in our memory scrapbook those politicians who enabled the impeached president to attempt a complete usurpation of our democracy. They thought he would make America great again, but he nearly destroyed it in the process.

Let us never forget.

Luciano S. Martinez, Murray

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