Posted on 11/20/2017 8:59:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump sat down in Asia with the president of China and devoted valuable time to springing from jail three UCLA basketball players who decided to try to steal stuff from a Louis Vuitton store in China.
The players themselves thanked Trump, but one of their fathers, LaVar Ball, decided to use the moment to diss the man who kept his son out of Chinese prison, where one can only imagine the conditions.
“Who?” Ball told ESPN when asked about Trump’s assistance. “Don’t tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out.”
Trump, not suprisingly, wasn’t happy.
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Maybe he was still sore from taking the time to try to comfort the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in Niger. Provoked, I think, by an attention-seeking Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., who was listening in on the call, the widow claimed Trump said her husband “knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyway.”
Who knows, maybe Trump was inartful in the way he put things. But the notion that he would try to suggest to a soldier’s widow that in some way his death wasn’t a tragedy is absurd. The proper thing for this congresswoman to do, rather than grabbing her bullhorn, would have been to get back in touch with Trump and say, “Hey, she kind of misunderstood your intention, can you try it again?”
Of course, there was the moment a few days after being elected president that Trump backed off his threat to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton.
“I don’t want to hurt them,” he said of the Clintons. “I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people.”
So, with her get-out-of-jail-free card in hand, Hillary turned around and subverted our democracy by taking every available opportunity to question the legitimacy of the election.
Now Trump is pressuring Attorney General Sessions to appoint one. I don’t think it’s a great idea to prosecute your former political opponent. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t richly deserve it.
Part of the reason Trump won the presidency is that people could relate to him, because he has actual emotions, including compassion. But in the White House, having human emotions can be a frustrating thing.
Or maybe he has a lifelong habit of answering his attackers
The dipshit arrogant Dad started this
Trump being Trump said what came tomhis mind
Same thing most of over 300 million Amerucans would say to an obnoxious posturing ingrate - I shoulda left your thug kid in jail
Now Bush 43 being the consummate blueblood would say nothing as he was attacked- noblesse oblige got him exactly where?
Caning DUIs was done in Finland in recent times.
Maybe Trump will learn a valuable lesson from this: that befriending the enemy causes them to be more brazen.
It’s in Scripture; when Jesus healed ten lepers, only one came to thank him!
If the war on drugs was serious we'd be executing all drug dealers from street level to kingpin. Since we're not, it's not.
Compromising with bad policy is like adding a little sewage to your drinking water.
Did the other nine go out and spread the Word?
I’ve never seen what the other nine did.
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