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Letter: Traitors reveal themselves

By Pat Conboy, Vancouver
Published: February 1, 2021, 6:00am

On Jan. 6, 2021, thousands of Republican people went to a protest rally called by President Trump; after he called for them to march to the Capitol, they did.

All of those people became traitors. They tried to take over Congress and force by strength how we are governed, and killed and injured policemen doing it.

Even though these people carried our flag, they don’t want to be Americans and work for our country; they want to pick our rulers and for us to bow down to them.

Now the Clark County Republican Party chair is calling for our elected Republican representative to quit, because she voted to impeach the man who sent the mob to take over Congress and then watched TV while they were trying to do it, and did nothing to stop it. Donald Trump Jr. told the people at that rally: “This isn’t their party any more. It’s Donald Trump’s Republican Party.”

I guess that’s what the chair thinks, too. Too gutless to stand with his own people. Guess we would have to call him another word if he would have been in D.C. on Jan. 6. It starts with T …

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