Supporting an Enemy of the People during the Pandemic: Navajo Vice President attends Trump megachurc

PHOENIX -- Many Navajos were horrified to hear that Navajo Vice President Myron Lizer attended the Trump rally at the megachurch, Dream City Church, in Phoenix on Tuesday, as the coronavirus was increasing at an alarming rate in Phoenix, hospitals were in emergency mode in Arizona, and Dine' families were fighting to both stay alive and recover from the loss of their loved ones during this pandemic.

It is a harsh reminder of the history of the elected Navajo Nation government -- which signed the leases for the coal mining, power plants and oil and gas fields between corporations and the Navajo Nation -- and then failed to use revenues for water and electricity for the people.

For 50 years, Dine' at Big Mountain and Black Mesa suffered because of the failure of the elected tribal government. The water and coal went to produce power for southern Arizona, and elsewhere in the Southwest, while the people suffered. All across the Navajo Nation, Dine' need running water, especially now in times of the coronavirus pandemic.

"I have no words for this," was one person's response to Lizer attending the Trump rally.

"I can't believe that Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer would attend and disregard all the things they've put in place and mandated across the Navajo Nation. (Navajo President) Jonathan Nez how could you allow him to be so reckless?"

"This is disrespecting your own people. After all we've lost, you guys think Myron supporting Trump is okay? Talk about a betrayal to your own people. We demand a public announcement that Myron Lizer will be in quarantine for two weeks after attending this rally, when there is record-breaking Covid-19 numbers, and it was held indoors."

Another person responded, "Navajo Nation Vice President Lizer shows us who he really is, even after all the intentional neglect of Navajo by the Trump administration during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic issue, and even after the continued mistreatment of Natives and people of color by Trump and MAGA. He's really screwed up. Sad."

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