Trump cruelty called out by a Tennessee parent in an opinion letter

Echo opinion letter published in the Williamson Herald, a Tennessee newspaper: 

"The former president recently called Vice President Kamala Harris “retarded” while attempting to convince top Republican donors to pour more money into his campaign at his New York penthouse...😠😡😧❗..."

Donald Trump's latest tirade into IDIOCACY 😧💢was the straw that broke my camel’s back! 

Let me preface this by telling you that in the early 1970s, my wife and I were a part of a USO Tour throughout Southeast Asia. When we weren’t performing for the troops, we played music for orphans all over that part of the world. My wife was six, seven and eight months pregnant with our first child. The experience in the orphanages caused us to re-think our future family plans.

Two and a half years after the arrival of our son, we were all at the Nashville Airport greeting our first daughter (and sister), a biracial child from Viet Nam. Almost six years to the date of her arrival, a second daughter came to us via the Tennessee Department of Human Services. She was abandoned by her mother at 4 and spent another four years in foster care.

She was born with spina bifida, a birth defect of the neuro tube that caused her to be physically and mentally challenged, not to mention, never growing beyond 4’1” tall. She has successfully been living independently in her own apartment for over 20 years. She regularly books and takes the Franklin Trolley three days a week to where she volunteers at a local thrift store. She manages her own medications and cooks her own meals.

She is neither “Stupid” nor “Retarded”, although she was occasionally called that, along with “midget,” by some uninformed teenagers when she was in high school. 

Our daughter is a loving and caring human being who is wise and sensitive enough not to use derogatory language when talking about someone else! Her IQ is around 45-50.

The former president recently called Vice President Kamala Harris “retarded” while attempting to convince top Republican donors to pour more money into his campaign at his New York penthouse, according to The New York Times. Former education secretary Betsy DeVos, who was present, should have called him out for using such offensive language. She didn’t.💢😡 I personally took great offence at his use of the ugly word.

Mr. “former President,” our daughter will never own a New York City penthouse, and even if she did, she is smart enough to never think of running for president….and you should be too…but maybe you’re not as smart as she is! Please reconsider. We are so better than this!

From Gene Cotton in Franklin, Tennessee