Republicans defend their evil leader

Letter to the editor in today's SF Chronicle:

Regarding “The art of destroying the deal” (Editorial, Dec. 24): 

As per usual, The Chronicle editorial staff cherry-picked its commentary about President Trump to make him out to be the villain of the virus package.

The truth was best spoken by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy: “Congress chose to ignore the tax dollars wasted overseas while so many Americans are struggling at home.” The pork spending is in fact what President Trump has complained about and why he may veto the bill.

The current stimulus bill sent to the desk of the president includes nearly $400 million to be spent in such places as Cambodia, the West Bank and Myanmar. How does this aid one American out of work?

It is a fact that at least 40 times now the Republicans have attempted to pass stimulus legislation only to be turned down by House Majority leader Nancy Pelosi.

I say kudos to President Trump for putting America first.

Jane Kilpatrick

Pebble Beach

Rob's comment:

If President Trump was so concerned about "pork spending" and including $2,000 payments to individuals in the legislation, why did he wait until the bipartisan legislation was passed by Congress before speaking up? 

The answer: Because he wasn't concerned at all about the virus relief that millions of Americans need. Trump just didn't like being crowded out of the news cycle by the bipartisan success story while he was busy trying to sell his lie about election fraud.

Typical that Kilpatrick parrots the party line from Kevin McCarthy, that the virus relief package contains foreign aid, which of course is often "wasted" on them undeserving foreigners and never in the national interest.

The reality: Republicans and Democrats were too far apart to seriously negotiate before the recent bipartisan, "centrist" proposal broke the impasse. 

The virus aid legislation was then attached to an omnibus spending bill to keep the government open. The foreign aid was never part of the bipartisan virus relief deal.

Trump was also busy pardoning his criminal accomplices and the American mercenaries who murdered 17 Iraqi civilians: Trump's most disgusting pardons.