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How can Reynolds stand with Trump?
Sue Johanningmeier
Jun. 21, 2023 6:00 am
If I could write a letter to Kim Reynolds that she would actually read, I would tell her how horrified and saddened I am that she stands with Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been found liable by a jury, a group of his peers, for sexual abuse of a woman. He also bragged to a reporter, (Billy Bush, 2005), how he was able to physically sexually assault women because he was rich.
This is who Kim Reynolds stands with? What kind of a message is she sending out to the young woman in Iowa? What kind of a message is she sending out to the young men in Iowa? I realize now that all her talk about family values and parents' rights etc., is just rhetoric. I refer to it as rhetoric, because it obviously lacks in sincerity because she stands with Donald Trump, and Donald Trump has demonstrated more than once that sexual assault of a woman is OK with him. As a parent, I would never stand with a man or woman that is OK with anyone committing sexual assault, let alone endorsing him to be the leader of this nation as she did in 2020. Isn't Kim Reynolds the leader of the "Family Values" group here in Iowa? Those are some of the strangest family values I think I have encountered.
Sue Johanningmeier
Quasqueton
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