Partly cloudy this morning. Increasing clouds with periods of showers this afternoon. High 67F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50%..
Cloudy skies this evening. A few showers developing late. Low 47F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Updated: September 30, 2025 @ 4:31 am
To the editor:
Donald ‘fine people on both sides’ Trump has outdone himself again, launching his most transparently racist attacks yet by telling Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Pressley, and Omar to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” For the record, all but Ilhan Omar were born in the United States, and Omar herself is a citizen, elected by the people of Minnesota.
If that weren’t enough, one day later, Donald Trump is admonishing the quartet for their “horrible and disgusting actions” (by which I assume he means that they dared to criticize him) and demanding an apology.
The irony is almost too much. Nobody, absolutely not a single person, owes Donald Trump an apology because Donald Trump, on principle, has never apologized for anything.
Trump has shown himself not only to be a vile racist, sexist, misogynist, liar, accused and likely rapist, and early-stage fascist, but a hypocrite as well. If you support him, I invite you to examine your own hypocrisy, racism, and sexism.
Rep. Omar’s response: “As Members of Congress, the only country we swear an oath to is the United States. Which is why we are fighting to protect it from the worst, most corrupt and inept president we have ever seen.”
For the love of Christ, Republicans, how can you continue to support the most un-Christlike man imaginable? Have we not seen enough?
Benjamin Sheppard
Hood River
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