President Trump claims that his falling out with Jeffery Epstein occurred because, as Trump said of Epstein, “He stole people that worked for me.”
Trump considers people to be a commodity that can be stolen, he considers people to be a commodity owned.
The presidential administration is full of human traffickers. They are ordering masked ICE agents to round up people who have had to navigate a complex immigration system where delays, financial hardship, lost paperwork, missed meetings or misprints can be considered criminal; the most vulnerable are targeted by those wielding institutional power.
The administration is rapidly using hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to build internment camps in the U.S. and to expand ICE, enriching Trump’s network and sending people to horrific prisons.
People in the U.S. are being persecuted and detained for stating that the U.S. sends billions of dollars annually to Israel, boosting a military that has been ordered to be abusive toward Palestine for decades.
Vice President JD Vance repeatedly asserts his loyalty to the president in a way never before done so obsessively by a vice president. He seems to have Stockholm syndrome, apparently an adverse reaction to being injected with Peter Thiel’s vile Palantir agenda.
Many members of Congress are so far removed from their hearts, using the terms “illegal” and “aliens” as slurs, they viciously mock and dehumanize.
Is this the direction that we the people consider great?
Sable Knapp
Portland
This letter to the editor is available here in The Portland Press Herald.
September 9, 2025 online
September 10, 2025 in print