Discussion: White House: Trump Spoke To Families Of Soldiers Killed In Niger, 13 Days Later

Unforgiven.

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President Trump said when asked about dead servicemen ā€œwe’re not going to talk about that today. We’ll be talking about servicemen dying for their country as time goes on. We’ll talk about that later.ā€

@leftcoaster You wouldn’t know from his Twitter feed that he had done this, and that’s probably a sign of humility or ideally humiliation.

@lochsabill ā€œI’m calling to offer thoughts and prayers.ā€ Looks at his watch, thinks to himself, can I hang up now.

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Why even put out a statement. This just adds to the disgraceful behavior of Trump. He does not know what grief or empathy are. They are emotions that he does not feel.

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I wonder if he spoke to them about his glorious electoral college victory.

He was seriously boxed in. no other reason.

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I have to wonder what his ā€˜calls’ are like since he lacks any trace of empathy, and seems incapable of talking without making the greatness of himself the center of discussion.

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Yup.

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He had to do something.
Too many protested and he had no way of firing all those who spoke up.

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This is a story that should never have been a story. It has nothing to do with Obama, nothing to do with Kelly, nor anyone else.

I can only imagine what the families of those soldiers killed in action must feel at this point. It really seems instead of making the call out of true compassion, Trump was basically shamed into it after being called out on his outlandish lies.

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@tena

Did you see the haikus by Junior in the New Yorker. Two samples

Slick wood and slick hair.
Striped suits, chairs, Fiji bottles.
I love cool meetings.

My name is Donald
Trump, Jr., the son of Pres-
ident Trump. K, bitch?
The Haikus of Don, Jr. | The New Yorker

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The families of these Green Berets not only have to deal with the loss of their sons, brothers, fathers, husbands … they have to deal with the loss in the environment created by the Ass in Chief, deflecting any focus from them to him and his lies, politicizing their service and their deaths. Trump soils everything and everyone he touches.

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No I haven’t seen them though we probably have them. I haven’t looked at the latest issues.

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The issue was never when and whether he contacted the families. Or whether Obama did. Trump is the one who made it about that.

The issue was why the President had said nothing about the deaths of four servicemen in a country most people have never heard of and had no idea we were militarily involved in. And there has still been no mention of it. Misdirection wins the day again.

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trumpet just can’t catch a break these days, so the winning has been put on hold by the same judge from an island in the Pacific.who stopped him some time back.

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I so loved reading this earlier! There are still principled public servants out there.

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The administration’s thinking is that terrorists will be kept out. I’m thinking what could do the administration do to prevent a homegrown terrorist from killing 58 people in another American city.

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You know there are a lot of them. The country is still moving right along the way it usually does, the government is still governmenting ( :wink: ) and it’s the hundreds if not thousands of public servants doing it.

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Some of the best are employed by the National Park Service.

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It is difficult to keep up with a weekly magazine but I have to. What a terrific publication.

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Yeah and those have to be some of the lowest paid too.

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