1/31/2020

My Dear Friend & POTUS, DJT,

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/des-moines-trump-rally/

            Are you smiling this morning? I suspect that you are. Your wish to silence JRB seems to be coming true & you got a nice warm welcome from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds last night at your rally. You also got a chance to brag about your “colossal victory for the American farmer” who are “going to have to get bigger tractors and a hell of a lot more land.” FYI – Iowa has 33 million acres of rural land and 26 million acres are in crop lands and the rest is being used for other things like pasture and development (houses & such). 1 million acres of wetlands & forest to provide recreation to the farmers like to hunt on the few days off they have each year. I’m not sure where they are going to get more land. Anyhoo –

            Please don’t do too much smiling when you talk about Human Trafficking today. It’s a terrible thing and some folks accuse us of doing it to the immigrants ICE is detaining in private prisons. They have to clean toilets for $1 a day so they can buy tampons. Doesn’t that sound like slave labor? Since you are as troubled as I am by the possibility of exploitation, please stop taking $ from CoreCivic & GEO group and reconsider whether any company should be able to profit from detaining people.

         Be your best self,