OC Democratic Party Vice Chair Resigns After Uproar Over Comments Praising Ho Chi Minh

Flags fly over the Vietnam War Memorial in Westminster, Calif., on Sept. 3, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

California’s Orange County Democratic Party Vice Chair Jeff LeTourneau resigned on Sept. 3 after comments he posted on social media praising Vietnam’s Communist leader Ho Chi Minh drew widespread condemnation.

LeTourneau shared a Facebook post on Aug. 31 that described Minh as someone who “liberated an entire poor, colonized nation from 2 of the most powerful imperial military forces in the world (the US and France) and won full independence for the people of Vietnam.”