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[RustyNails]

It's the inability to do the little easy things that blow my mind.

Or Trump did not want to be seen as "losing", and tried to sweep the statement under the rug.

 

[nature boy]

WH @Presssec says there is NOT a recording of his conversation w/ soldier's widow. Says there were others in the room.

What a surprise

 

[Surfinn]

What a surprise

God I hope somebody releases a recording

 

[Slayven]

If only he could direct that anger towards the one person who brought it up and politicized it to begin with.

He knows what kinda of people he works with

 

[studyguy]

Wager a hefty sum that Trump simply didn't want to pick up the tab for soldiers dying to a raid on his watch. Instead choosing to quietly ignore it.


https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/920735123955486721

Manu Raju (@mkraju)
Reporter: Is the Trump administration being up front about what happened in Niger?

"No," McCain said, per @KilloughCNN

:thinking: That kind of shit makes you wonder if they're tamping down on the overall timeline of events that occurred out there.

 

[pigeon]

.@HallieJackson reminds SHS that the soldier's mother told WaPo *she* felt disrespected. Sanders says Kelly felt Trump did "best he could."

Probably true, but also, basically the whole problem.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Or Trump did not want to be seen as "losing", and tried to sweep the statement under the rug.

Sure there's a million reasons... but that statement would have been such an easy thing to do. He doesn't even have to mean any of it or even be convincing because the Press is desperate not to shit on him (that's the irony of his crusade against them) so it's those easy things, that mean fuck nothing but are good PR, that he keeps fucking up that amaze me.

 

[dramatis]

Wager a hefty sum that Trump simply didn't want to pick up the tab for soldiers dying to a raid on his watch. Instead choosing to quietly ignore it.

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/920735123955486721

:thinking: That kind of shit makes you wonder if they're tamping down on the overall timeline of events that occurred out there.

Don't dive into a Benghazi hole.

 

[studyguy]

Don't dive into a Benghazi hole.

It's not even the same thing issue.
Less a grand conspiracy of events and more a matter of brushing it aside.
His NSC guy writes a memo, bother.
Late on acknowledging the victim families.

Again I'd absolutely wager that the admin wants as little to do with the fallout as humanly possible. Whatever bungling has happened immediately afterwards was probably just born out of that. There's no grand cover up, just an admin that seems incapable of handling even the slightest amount of blame. Not like that's anything new.

Anyway, in other horrible soulless people news:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...4cbc8c-b43a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html

Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a call, but didn't follow through
President Trump, in a personal phone call to a grieving military father, offered him $25,000 and said he would direct his staff to establish an online fundraiser for the family, but neither happened, the father said.

Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Cpl. Dillon Baldridge, told The Washington Post that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a few weeks after his 22-year-old son and two fellow soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan police officer in a suspected insider attack June 10. Their phone conversation lasted about 15 minutes, Baldridge said, and centered for a time on the father's struggle with the manner in which his son was killed.

 

[Teggy]

Oh boy, Trump’s about to call a gold star father a scam artist.

 

[B-Dubs]

How does he keep finding new depths to sink to? Just when you think he's hit the bottom, he keeps on digging.

 

[chadskin]

Anyway, in other horrible soulless people news:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...4cbc8c-b43a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html

Also:

In all, seven Gold Star families contacted by The Post said they have had phone conversations with Trump. Most said they appreciated the gesture. Four families said they have not received a call and were upset. One said Trump had not called but that they knew the late soldier would not want his death politicized. An additional family said that it had corresponded with the White House, but declined to elaborate.

 

[Officerrob]

Trump thinks he's still running The Apprentice

 

[Teggy]

They’re just going to start asking parents of soldiers who died 2008-2016. There’s no way Obama talked to them all and I’m sure a lot of them are Trump voters. This is going to get messy.

 

[PBY]

They’re just going to start asking parents of soldiers who died 2008-2016. There’s no way Obama talked to them all and I’m sure a lot of them are Trump voters. This is going to get messy.

This is also the stupidest political controversy that doesn't fucking matter since the last one.

How many times are we going to do this, go back and forth, realize Trump's an asshole / dumbass (shocking!) and then rinse/repeat?

 

[Owzers]

They’re just going to start asking parents of soldiers who died 2008-2016. There’s no way Obama talked to them all and I’m sure a lot of them are Trump voters. This is going to get messy.

Trump is the one who said he calls them all though, right? Ahhhh they’ll forget that soon.

 

[Officerrob]

This is also the stupidest political controversy that doesn't fucking matter since the last one.

How many times are we going to do this, go back and forth, realize Trump's an asshole / dumbass (shocking!) and then rinse/repeat?

For 3-7 more years

 

[studyguy]

They’re just going to start asking parents of soldiers who died 2008-2016. There’s no way Obama talked to them all and I’m sure a lot of them are Trump voters. This is going to get messy.

Pretty sure offering a family 25grand and not delivering is some 50,000 leagues under the sea level shit Obama could have never hoped to reach in the GOP's wildest nightmare though.

This shit is absolutely wild.

 

[Ac30]

This is also the stupidest political controversy that doesn't fucking matter since the last one.

How many times are we going to do this, go back and forth, realize Trump's an asshole / dumbass (shocking!) and then rinse/repeat?

At least it's distracting him from tax cuts, for now.

 

[sc0la]

Also:

I want the gold star families he called home states cross checked with his electoral college map. I bet there’s a... pattern.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

This is also the stupidest political controversy that doesn't fucking matter since the last one.

How many times are we going to do this, go back and forth, realize Trump's an asshole / dumbass (shocking!) and then rinse/repeat?

As many times as it takes to hurt his re-election in 2020 and remove the veil that the GOP is the party of family values and military respect.

 

[skullmuffins]

Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
White House now saying the $25K check to soldier's dad has been sent and the media is "biased" and "disgusting."

"the check is in the mail"

 

[Surfinn]

"the check is in the mail"

"WHO FORGOT TO SEND THE CHECK"

oops

 

[Zolo]

"the check is in the mail"

Translation: Now that we've heard this, we are now sending.

 

[whyamihere]

should i post this UNH poll of the 2020 nh dem primary or

 

[pigeon]

should i post this UNH poll of the 2020 nh dem primary or

For comedy value?

 

[Ac30]

"the check is in the mail"

I can't. Somehow this makes it worse to me, because they're only following through 'cause the media caught them.

 

[whyamihere]

Translation: Now that we've heard this, we are now sending.

lol omg

@gregpmiller
WH now saying the "check has been sent." Wonder what that postmark will show.

 

[VendettaRed07]

should i post this UNH poll of the 2020 nh dem primary or

Yes

 

[Officerrob]

Why is Trump giving one gold star dad $25K? How does that not open Pandora's Box over all the other gold star families not getting a cent?

 

[sc0la]

Wait why are they sending a dad a check anyway?

 

[studyguy]

Wait why are they sending a dad a check anyway?

Trump said he would lol...
Scroll up.

And asking why THIS family got a check and not any other is on par with asking why some got a call and some didn't, why he didn't remember the widow or the soldier's name yesterday. Trump doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason to his shit. The admin is just cartoon levels of wacky all the time apparently.

 

[jmdajr]

"Why didn't we get a check?"

 

[Zolo]

So this conversation was truth, but the other disrespectful one was wrong? Hmmm.

 

[Officerrob]

Trump said he would lol...

Yet he didn't say that to anyone else? And that's OK?

 

[VendettaRed07]

It’s honeslty too much to keep up with.

Trump’s bed has so many nails you could play pool on top of it

 

[Ac30]

Why is Trump giving one gold star dad $25K? How does that not open Pandora's Box over all the other gold star families not getting a cent?

Heh, I hadn't even considered this. One father gets 25K for his son's death and another mother doesn't even get a call.

 

[Tamanon]

Wait why are they sending a dad a check anyway?

It's another weird thing. Trump apparently told the dad he would give him $25k, because the survivor's benefit of $100k apparently goes to the mom instead?

It's such an odd thing to come up on both sides actually.

 

[TS-08]

“This story that Trump promised to send a check but hasn’t yet is disgusting and biased, and to prove it, we are now going to send the check.”

 

[Zolo]

Yet he didn't say that to anyone else? And that's OK?

Yeah. I wonder if this will set precedent for at least the Trump admin.

 

[whyamihere]

For comedy value?

Yes

I AM CHAOS

@ryanstruyk
Brace yourselves: New 2020 numbers out of New Hampshire via UNH -->

Sanders 31%
Biden 24%
Warren 13%
Booker 6%
O'Malley 3%
Hickenlooper 2%
Zuckerberg 2%
Harris 1%
Ryan 1%
Klobuchar 1%
Gillibrand 1%
Delaney 0%

 

[TheAbsolution]

Jake Tapper's opening monologue about the soldier controversy just now was very touching. Almost made me tear up.

 

[pigeon]

Yet he didn't say that to anyone else? And that's OK?

The guy said he needed money, Trump was on the phone with him and said "oh okay I'll give you money."

Other guys didn't say they needed money on the phone, basically.

This is basically how the old insane kings used to work I think.

 

[Tamanon]

I AM CHAOS

Gillibrand needs to get out there more. I think she'd be a pretty good candidate.

 

[whyamihere]

does every gold star family get $25k from Trump now

 

[Emarv]

I AM CHAOS

We all love white dudes, no matter their politics!

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Is trump gonna send every solider a check?

When 100,000s die in his NK war?

 

[kirblar]

Gillibrand needs to get out there more. I think she'd be a pretty good candidate.

Is up for re-election in 2018. Can't officially do/say anything till that's done with even though everyone knows she's running.

 

[dramatis]

Well we would need a phone record to be sure, but of course Trump's staff probably did not keep a phone record.

 

[studyguy]

I almost miss the freak out over VA numbers yesterday.
That makes more sense than today.