[JayGalt]

I came across this today

During the first GOP Presidential Debate, @RonDeSantis told a strange story about how he met an “Angel Mom” from Texas named “Tracy” @GoldStar_2Step whose son died from fentanyl poisoning after taking drugs.

Turns out Tracy is a real woman. Her name is Tracy La Porte. But she’s a Gold Star mom, not an Angel mom, and she exclusively told me she’s never met @RonDeSantis, as he falsely claimed.

She told me he also lied about the cause of her son’s death. Her son died on active duty in a car accident, not from fentanyl as DeSantis claimed.

https://loomered.com/2023/09/07/exclusive-ron-desantis-fabricated-debate-story-about-meeting-an-angel-mom-falsely-claims-gold-star-mothers-son-died-from-taking-drugs-laced-with-fentanyl/

[mass55th]

Thanks for sharing the link to the story about Gold Star Mom Tracy. I had heard vague references to her, but didn't know the whole story of what went down.

Back in 2008, I remember watching McCain and Obama debate. In one of his debate responses, McCain was talking about a Gold Star Mother who had asked him to wear her son's bracelet. McCain gave his name as Cpl. Matthew Stanley. He'd been killed in Iraq. Once McCain was done with his response, Obama quickly piped up: "I got a bracelet too, " and then had to look at the bracelet to remember whose name was on it: Sergeant Ryan David Jopek. I can still remember how I reacted when I watched it on the TV all those years ago. I despised both McCain and Obama, but it was pretty telling how little the bracelet actually meant to Obama since he couldn't even remember the guy's name that was on the bracelet he was wearing.

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Lots of women named “Tracy” in Texas ...