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.
The person he rescued said than you. That is enough. Who cares what his father says. Everyone knows he is a fool. Trump is president. He should have gotten a U.S. citizen freed from a communist country.
A guy at work got fired. Drugs, absenteeism. Would not acknowledge he was lucky when they didn’t fire him the 1st time.
It wasn’t like they were detained for no reason in a communist country. Video exists of them stealing. BTW, who goes to a foreign country to commit a crime? That tells me they steal all the time.
NEVER COMPROMISE WITH LIBERALS!!! NEVER!! NEVER!!!
(ref: see parable of the scorpion ad the frog).
Imagine the backlash & bad PR for China had they done that? LOL
It's strange how Mexico will protect it's citizens outside the country, but the U.S. usually doesn't.
And just so you know, it's not like I don't think any U.S. citizen should punished for murders outside our borders. I think Amanda Knox should be rotting in an Italian prison. But she murdered someone, and Italy has a relatively civilized justice system.
In many Middle Eastern countries they could’ve had their hands lopped off.
Would you be okay with that happening to a U.S. citizen?
You don’t agree that Singapore is free to use a cane on a malefactor?
Singapore also executed an Australian drug trafficker who was of Vietnamese extraction. They were free to do that. But here in the U.S. we don't believe in executing drug traffickers, although maybe sometimes we wish we could punish them more severely.
Would you be okay with that happening to a U.S. citizen?
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If that is the standard punishment for the crime, absolutely.
What gives ‘US’ the right to flaunt local laws.
When I made my first trip to Japan in 1957, courtesy of the USN, they made it a point of informing the crew of what behavior was expected of us and the warning that certain crimes carried different punishments than were ‘used to’.
They also warned us to not eat the vegetables as the Japanese were using human fertilizer.
A lesson my father taught me when I was young - don’t expect gratitude for good deeds and you’ll never be disappointed. The deed is worth doing for its own sake.
Yes. I spent a business career overseas. Different country, different laws. In Saudi Arabia, the place you're referring to, the saying used to go that you could leave a diamond ring on a restaurant table and when you came back an hour later it'd still be there.
These pampered scum committed theft and if the full weight of the local law was enforced I'd have no problem with it at all. Trumped up charges or persecution because they're American would be a different matter.
Never accuse a left wing air head of having a bulb for his chandelier!
That would be rasis!
This idiot just communicated to the world it is acceptable to steal.
Typical BLM/Black Panther type
Never wrestle with a pig - you’ll both get dirty and the pig will LIKE it.
The President seems to have a pathological need to not only win but a desire to grind the faces or those who oppose him into their own excrement. Yet this vindictiveness is precisely the reason Trump appeals to the Deplorables. It is our outlet to fight back at the injustices leveled against us by the Progressives.
...”A lesson my father taught me when I was young - don’t expect gratitude for good deeds and you’ll never be disappointed. The deed is worth doing for its own sake.”...
This is a good thought to follow. President Trump did the right thing. The father of that player who thinks it is OK to steal was the subject of a conversation which took place in a group I was in last week. The comments about the father were not favorable, to say the least. Evidently, he has his own reputation.
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