Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

In The Star’s Aug. 15 editorial “GOP must repudiate more than Donald Trump’s timing” (10A), it states “Yes, Charlottesville (is) sad. But sad, too, is that more Republicans who know exactly who Donald Trump is are not more clearly distancing themselves even now. Every toxic leader, and Trump is one, is made possible by those who know what’s wrong and yet for their own reasons keep quiet.”

This statement implies that GOP representatives do not support Trump’s positions and yet do not have the courage, character or integrity to do the right thing for the benefit of their constitutes [sic]. As always, they think only of themselves and their financial backers.

Maybe the real problem is that Republicans do not distance themselves from Trump because deep down they support his ideologies.

It’s time to call it what it is. These Republicans are not necessarily cowards. The truth is that anyone in office who does not openly and directly rebut Trump actually agrees with and supports his actions.

Everyone, please make your honest opinions known to your representatives in Washington, D.C. It matters. Vote your conscience.

Don Bendetti

Kansas City

Last night in Phoenix I read the things from my statements on Charlottesville that the Fake News Media didn't cover fairly. People got it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2017

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Framed (1972).

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Ah, the memories. Ten years ago today, the Texas Rangers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 30-3. Click to enlarge.

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Dear Republicans, what will it take for you to admit that your president is a white supremacist? His pathetic statements about violence on "many sides" after the terror and violence committed by Nazis and Klansman is only the latest evidence in a decades long pattern. Most famously, of course, Trump rose to national political prominence by promoting the "birther" conspiracy that Obama was secretly an African Muslim. It goes back much further though. His father was arrested while participating in a Klan riot, father and son were sued multiple times for racially based housing discrimination, Trump campaigned for the death penalty for five black teenagers falsely convicted of rape (he stands by that even today), his campaign was endorsed by the American Nazi Party and many KKK leaders, it goes on and on.

Trump's second statement calling out some of these groups by name is like a child forced by their parents to apologize for some minor wrongdoing, though everyone knows they don't mean it. Except this is the president and his administration is fueling white supremacist terrorism. We will all be judged by history for our actions during this time of crisis. So, to my Republican friends and neighbors, take a long look in the mirror, and ask yourself, whose side are you on?

Michael Gaskill, Eddyville