Letter praising former President Trump played fast, loose with the facts
It was fittingly appropriate that Edward Rzepala’s letter appeared in the Opinion section of your online newspaper since his revisionist screed was 100% fact-free.
Rzepala claims to be responding to Matthew Leahy’s March 30 letter but in actuality Rzepala chose not to attempt to refute the points made by Leahy regarding the crippling moral and behavioral failings on the part of former President Trump.
It’s not hard to guess why: he was unable to do so as the facts regarding Trump speak for themselves.
Instead, Rzepala chose to disseminate categorically untrue accusations and namecalling against President Biden, who can indeed “string more than two coherent sentences together” and can “think on his feet without notes or a Teleprompter.” A simple Google search of Biden speaking easily refutes Rzepala’s claims.
A similar search of Trump speaking also refutes Rzepala’s insistence that Trump could pull off such accomplishments. His “word salad” rambling incoherent speeches were more than enough to make people wince.
Rzepala’s claims that Trump helped create jobs is also easily refuted by confirmed sources, which actually prove “historic unemployment under Trump.”
Similarly, Rzepala is obviously referring to the Keystone Pipeline jobs when he accuses Biden of throwing 20,000 people out of work.
In actuality, the jobs that project would have generated would have been merely temporary positions with only about 50 permanent jobs remaining at the completion of the project.
Rzepala also conveniently ignores the fact Biden’s infrastructure bill will generate millions of jobs. I won’t hold my breath waiting to see him award the president credit for those.
This is what it means to be a Trump supporter: to ignore inconvenient facts and misrepresent reality, just as Trump himself does. And this is why 81 million voters had decided enough was enough and it was time for Trump to go, whether he liked it or not.
Rzepala may speak about “honesty, integrity, dignity and courage” when he no longer seeks to gaslight and defend a man who told tens of thousands of lies in office, cheated on all his wives, bragged about sexual assault, threw constant tantrums on Twitter and incited an insurrection and then raced back to the White House to safely crow over the mayhem his followers caused.
That mayhem was produced by a sore loser who refused to display any of the values listed above and created their ginnedup caterwauling over a nonexistent “stolen election.”
But I do have one note of consolation for Rzepala in the wake of Trump’s landslide loss. It was recently announced that Trump can be booked for speaking engagements at birthdays, graduations, retirements and “condolence” events. For an undoubtedly exorbitant fee, you too can be treated to
Trump contaminating your special gathering with a querulous “poor me” pity party about how unfairly he’s been treated and how he really did so too win reelection.
As Bob Seger famously sang, “all the same old cliches.” Another reminder as to why he received but one term.
As an aside, I recommend Rzepala invest in a dictionary and look up the word “socialist.”