Trump offers help to a terminally ill baby in England

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Exactly - this is a cynical attempt to look compassionate, that he knows makes no difference

It hasn't been a question of money (crowd-funding raised over a million pounds), or of permission to come to the USA. Here is the paragraph at the centre of the real story:

"On Tuesday, the parents lost a bid to take Charlie to the U.S. for trial therapy when the European Court of Human Rights sided with earlier rulings that continued treatment would cause "significant harm" and that life support should end. Specialists have said the proposed therapy wouldn't help Charlie."

That's the highest possible court of appeal (which agreed with lower courts), and the opinion is that travelling and treatment would not help, but would be a worse life than doing nothing.

So Trump's team knows this (maybe he does too, maybe he lost interest before they could explain), so they know making the "offer" costs them nothing at all. Hell, I bet they hope it'll get some people saying "see, you can't trust nationalised healthcare".

This is cynical exploitation of a dying child by a monster and his henchmen.