To the editor:

During the third weekend this August, when many Republicans could not stop flaying President Obama and certain other leading Democrats for not being at the millennially inundated southern Louisiana despite being urged to hold off their presence, National Public Radio reported that Hillary Clinton had donated $1 million to the relief effort.

But one would be hard-pressed to find elsewhere on the airwaves or in print any mention of Ms. Clinton’s generosity, which in the circumstances was the most desirable form of attention. Then again, that would not feed the narrative the Clinton critics are pushing.

A narrative, it should be pointed out, is not a report, not a thought-out conclusion based on solid facts; it is more of a tale. The Trumpites and their cohorts adopt whatever concoctions could fuel it.

Hardly the way we Americans should be approaching a probably existential national election!

Charles M. Moran Jr.

Tiverton