[Husted is giving Trump carte blanche to spend the blood of Americans — Letters to Editor](https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2026/04/28/jon-husted-ohio-senate-trump/89647592007/?taid=69f07736120b720001bff099&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)

# Gas prices are temporary, but sending Americans to war hurts a generation of innocent families.

# What will you tell your children?

Watching Sen. Jon Husted trying to perform his duty (https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/03/11/jon-husted-says-people-in-poverty-cant-navigate-real-world/89097784007/) these days doesn’t evoke memories of GOP heroes like Lincoln and Eisenhower. Not at all. Husted took an oath to defend the Constitution and again violated it in his most recent vote 

(https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll\_call\_votes/vote1192/vote\_119\_2\_00079.htm) to let the Trump and Netanyahu regimes continue to have carte blanche in this Republican-branded Middle East quagmire. Nothing.



No hearings.



No serious questions about President Donald Trump’s decision to spend the blood of Americans killed in battle, to allow bombs to fall and tear apart someone else’s innocent children.Good parents try hard to instill values like honesty, decency, fairness and duty in their children. Smart people tell us that it’s even better to teach by example than by lecture.



What’s the example a Republican senator sets now, down in his office busying himself with pumping out flag-festooned press releases, voting “NO” to even hold a hearing on this war, not answering the phone when reporters call, while our bombs and missiles fall on schools and hospitals in your name, in our country’s name?Do your kids ask you about the war? About the president of our country threatening annihilation of a whole country, a whole “civilization”?“What did you do when you read what the president said, Dad?" If you simply ignore the question, turn your back and pretend it wasn’t asked, and silently go back to your office, then you did to your kid just what you did to your country.



One crisis after another

Before the U.S. attacked Venezuela and Iran, someone asked on Quora.com (https://www.quora.com/) why so many people still supported President Donald Trump. 



The response was that Trump’s people get their news from Fox, One America News Network, and Newsmax rather than Forbes, CNBC, BBC, and other sources. The responder said that each morning, he spends an hour or more watching Fox and then switches to other sources to find out what really is going on.



A person who gets their news from Fox is likely to believe that foreign countries pay tariffs (https://www.dispatch.com/story/money/2026/02/15/americans-paid-trump-tariffs-2025-inflation/88692687007/) to the U.S., schools are forcing sex change operations (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-business-host-pushes-false-claim-schools-are-ushering-students-transgender-surgery) on students, immigrants are invading the U. S. and they are eating pets 

(https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/10/trump-eating-dogs-springfield-ohio-false-claim/75167810007/), illegals rape American women, schools are teaching critical race theory to grade school children, transgender women (https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/olympics/2025/09/24/international-olympic-committee-panel-on-transgender-participation-excludes-researchers-against-bans/86316357007/) really are men who will dominate in women’s sports, drag queens (https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/25/ohio-lawmakers-want-to-ban-drag-shows-deemed-obscene/89322186007/) are prematurely sexualizing our young people, and the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn’t happen (https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40259209).



If immigrants are killing and eating pets, is that a national issue or simply something for the local authorities to handle? Does the U.S. Congress need to address perceived harm from transgender women or drag queens?



According to Fox commentators and others on the right, one crisis after another is destroying the USA. Their reporting amounts to fear-mongering.

Husted giving Trump carte blanche to spend the blood of Americans.