President Donald Trump’s communications team wouldn’t allow reporters to accompany him to the hospital in El Paso, Texas where eight victims of Saturday’s mass shooting were still recovering on Wednesday, and now it’s not hard to see why.
…all of the victims at the University Medical Center refused to see the President when he came to visit.
This is a real head scratcher.
Perhaps they were being consoled by Michelle and President Obama at the time tRump arrived with his box of paper towels to throw at them.
The fact that Trump is a racist whose rhetoric was swallowed lock, stock and barrel by the shooter is just a coincidence, right?
From the WaPo article:
Before Trump’s visit Wednesday, however, some of the hospitalized victims accepted visits from a number of city and county elected officials, as well as Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-Tex.) and Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.).
time tRump arrived with his box of paper towels to throw at them.
time tRump arrived with his box of blood soaked gauze bandages
I think their impudence deserves a Twitter-lashing.
Ungrateful losers.
(Good for them)
ETA: Will he at least tweet out at WaPo for the fake news story - everyone wanted to see him and they all had a great day celebrating gun massacres.
Apparently not everyone is enthralled by a rock star.
In pre-sentencing documents for the rabid Florida Toadglans loon who sent bombs to lawmakers and journalists Cockholster et al. had criticized, his attorneys argued for leniency because [not a direct quote] “he had listened to the president and watched Fox News and was incapable of separating the hateful rhetoric from reality.” In other words: Don’t be too harsh, judge, he’s just a MAGAt dumbshit.
One commentator pointed out that attorneys for the right wing white supremacist yahoos who murdered the Indian engineers in Kansas City had argued much the same thing.
At the very least we will see pictures of a Smiling Trump touring the hospital. They will be coming directly from Sputnik or RT . I’m not sure who was covering instead of the Press Pool
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Per Politico, Trump is considering commuting the sentence of former IL Guv Rod Blagojevich.
There are also reports (unsubstantiated at this point) that those adoring folks in nurses’ uniforms were not regular employees scheduled to work that shift. I would definitely believe that those photos were staged, but perhaps Dan Scavino would like to comment.
(I don’t know what happened to Google images search function. As far as I’m concerned they totally fucked up a good thing with the way they display or enable access to various pics, gifs and the like. What a mess trying to get a good pic now from my laptop. It may be time to finally change my search engine.)
“they knew what they were signing up for”
Garcia has a fond spot for El Paso. He first entered the US there as a boy.
“First I got shot, now I have to do a photo op with Donald Trump” is literally adding insult to injury.
Good. They’ve been through enough already. Honestly, I wouldn’t want to meet with Trump in the best of circumstances. Even if he wasn’t a spiteful bigot deep in debt to foreigners, he’s a big weirdo who doesn’t know what the hell he’s saying and is so desperate for love he sucks the energy out of every room to make everything about himself.
Once again, the real MVP’s are the editors from The Apprentice who created CEO Jesus out of this moron. His fans are the same people who learned history from John Wayne movies and thought wrestling was real.
Well, of course. They fully understand that Trump has himself chosen not to be President for El Paso or any other majority minority city. That he does not view them as American solely by virtue of their race or even fully human. And when he came to El Paso, he mind-bogglingly had nothing specific to say to Latinos, though they were clearly the target of the Trump inspired terrorist. He has made his views amply clear and the people understand that.
They got too many complaints from websites that people were never clicking through to the websites (thus seeing advertising and earning revenue), and Google was just vacuuming up their IP for free.
“Some of them said they didn’t want to meet with the President,” the hospital’s spokesperson told the Post. “Some of them didn’t want any visitors.”
This “hospital spokesperson” is obviously an Antifa plant.
Mr. President? We’ve found someone from El Paso who will see you. His name is Bill. Bill Duenow.