Nov. 14, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: When the American flag flies, pink and blue share the identical material. One doesn’t overpower the opposite. But the leaders who signify it refuse to deal with something past touchdown punches on their political opponents.
The MAGA clan can bark at Democrats over the shutdown all they need, however studies constantly sign one thing much more troubling than gossip. The greater than 20,000 pages of extra paperwork from Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public property launched this week make that clear (“Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ Jeffrey Epstein claimed in emails as Democrats, GOP release trove of records,” Nov. 12). Then President Trump reveals simply how fast he’s to activate his personal, claiming “solely a really unhealthy, or silly, Republican” would query him.
This obsession with taking part in “huge stick” solely distracts from accountability, and leaves figures like Virginia Giuffre lowered to handy props.
Proper now, our flag stands for little greater than the colours that divide us. However one factor stays sure: The victims embody the perseverance and valor it’s speculated to symbolize higher than a celebration line ever might. And that may’t be written off as a hoax.
Samantha Hoffman, Conover, N.C.
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To the editor: I ponder why MAGA Republicans wish to see the recordsdata. In the event that they present that Trump participated in criminality and sexual assault, would they care? They knew he was a convicted felon and an adjudicated sexual offender final November, however they voted for him anyway.
Since legal convictions and sexual assault don’t appear to matter to them, maybe they’re upset about one thing else: Trump lied to them when he promised to launch the recordsdata. However his well-documented, confirmed, chronic lies have by no means upset them earlier than, so why now?
A extra probably purpose they search launch of the recordsdata is that they hope well-known Democrats had been concerned in Epstein’s crimes. This revelation would permit them to say their well-used, rotten-child-style justification for excusing years of Trump’s immoral, hateful conduct: Others did it too.
Jay Lynch, Pittsburgh, Pa.
