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Bleacher Creature

(11,257 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 12:57 PM Oct 2020

Trump blaming Gold Star Families for getting sick is no accident.

He views service members as "losers" and "suckers" because in his mind, nobody with other options would simply volunteer. He assumes that everyone in the military, other than the officers, are poor and uneducated and joined because they had no other prospects. People who were drafted to go to Vietnam are the biggest suckers in his mind because they couldn't even get a doctor to fake a medical condition for them.

If he were in a room full of CEOs, he wouldn't think twice about their health status. But a room full of families who lost someone in battle is a completely different story to him.

26 days. . .

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kimbutgar

(21,168 posts)
1. Sadly Fox will not broadcast that comment, it will not be reported on OANN and
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 12:59 PM
Oct 2020

None of the fascist talkers will mention it and the cult members won’t care as long as their messiah is re elected.

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
2. Someone infected Trump and we still don't know who he/she is.
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:00 PM
Oct 2020

He might blame other people publicly but he must be really angry and trying to find out who it is. I am waiting for someone's resignation citing family reasons soon.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
3. It wouldn't surprise me if Barrett's kids had it.
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:03 PM
Oct 2020

I don't really know, but pics of the Saturday indoor event showed several people, who later tested positive, fawning over those kids. I kind of doubt they were tested beforehand.

brewens

(13,599 posts)
8. Everyone knows how colds and flu go through a family. With a large family, you could be
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:31 PM
Oct 2020

dealing with it for a few months. They say sometime this summer. could easily have been someone from her family.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
11. A pic showed him next to and turned towards the little girl.
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:40 PM
Oct 2020

That creep was probably imagining how he might marry her in the future.

Tanuki

(14,919 posts)
4. The Gold Star event was the day after the Amy Covid Barrett Rose Garden
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:05 PM
Oct 2020

Biohazard incident, so the timeline doesn't work, despite Cretin45's report of multiple Gold Star family members getting in his face to call him "sir" and shower him with praise and possibly covid.

RAB910

(3,508 posts)
6. I am not even engaging in this BS
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:12 PM
Oct 2020

This is the sort of BS distraction Trump loves to employ. Better to stick to the real issues like his criminally negligent Covid response or his obscene taxes or his...

AnnaLee

(1,041 posts)
9. Where is the film of this.
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 01:35 PM
Oct 2020

If this is an election period, he would have upstaged all this hugging and breathing on himself. Were there any such media events within 14 days of his diagnosis? If not, this should be part of the media reports of his comment.

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