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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dem Rep. In Letter To Trump: ‘Take Your Border Wall And Shove It Up Your Ass’ [View all]
WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela took a poison pen to the Republican presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, in an open letter Monday morning.
"Mr. Trump, youre a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass," the Brownsville Democrat wrote in a lengthy missive to the real estate magnate.
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"While you would build more and bigger walls on the U.S.-Mexico border, I would tear the existing wall to pieces," Vela wrote. "Why any modern-thinking person would ever believe that building a wall along the border of a neighboring country, which is both our ally and one of our largest trading partners, is frankly astounding and asinine."
"Before you dismiss me as just another 'Mexican,' let me point out that my great-great-grandfather came to this country in 1857, well before your own grandfather," he continued. His grandchildren (my grandfather and his brothers) all served our country in World War I and World War II. His great-grandson, my father, served in the U.S. Army and, coincidentally, was one of the first 'Mexican' federal judges ever appointed to the federal bench."
"Mr. Trump, youre a racist and you can take your border wall and shove it up your ass," the Brownsville Democrat wrote in a lengthy missive to the real estate magnate.
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"While you would build more and bigger walls on the U.S.-Mexico border, I would tear the existing wall to pieces," Vela wrote. "Why any modern-thinking person would ever believe that building a wall along the border of a neighboring country, which is both our ally and one of our largest trading partners, is frankly astounding and asinine."
"Before you dismiss me as just another 'Mexican,' let me point out that my great-great-grandfather came to this country in 1857, well before your own grandfather," he continued. His grandchildren (my grandfather and his brothers) all served our country in World War I and World War II. His great-grandson, my father, served in the U.S. Army and, coincidentally, was one of the first 'Mexican' federal judges ever appointed to the federal bench."
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/06/texas-democratic-congressman-tells-trump-shove-it/
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Dem Rep. In Letter To Trump: ‘Take Your Border Wall And Shove It Up Your Ass’ [View all]
kpete
Jun 2016
OP
Why should the wealthiest, greatest country on earth even have a border anyway
StarTrombone
Jun 2016
#4
That's a Sunday school prayer, not real life international relations. Have you noticed Putin...
Hekate
Jun 2016
#16
"exhume logic"? The more I try to parse that the funnier it seems. Are the two of you....
Hekate
Jun 2016
#28
Donald Trump's $20 billion wall can be beat with $20 worth of rope and a grappling hook.
tclambert
Jun 2016
#11
Because it's a stupid & unAmerican plan. Please show links to comments by those you mentioned
Hekate
Jun 2016
#37
It could have been worse. He could have said "wrinkled old (Biblical word meaning donkey)"
yellowcanine
Jun 2016
#17
"A request for comment from the Trump campaign was not immediately returned Monday."
ailsagirl
Jun 2016
#24