Posted on 09/21/2018 10:50:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Donald Trump Jr. mocked Democratic Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) on Friday over a decades-old admission of domestic violence after the senator criticized a member of the White House staff.
In a tweet, the president's son brought up Carper's 1998 admission that he once slapped his wife, giving her a black eye. The incident was reported in a 1982 New York Post article that claimed his wife's two children from a previous relationship "were slapped around and bruised by Carper for doing such things as leaving the family dog on the bed."
Carper said late last year that he never lied about the incident in his 1982 bid for the House, but he did admit to slapping his wife.
"You admitted to hitting your wife so hard it gave her a black eye!" Trump Jr. wrote.
"Maybe you shouldn’t be so worried about someone mistakenly putting #maga in a tweet??? Seems you have other serious issues to work out," he added of the nearly four-decades-old incident, for which Carper has apologized.
Carper has repeatedly apologized for the incident, including in December after a Free Beacon report accused him of lying about the incident during his 1982 bid for the House.
"I have made many mistakes in my life and have always been willing to admit them. One of those mistakes took place 37 years ago when I slapped my then-wife, Diane, during a heated argument," Carper said last year.
"It was wrong. I regretted it then, and I still do today," he added.
Trump Jr.'s tweet came in response to Carper's criticism on Thursday of first lady Melania Trump's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham. In a letter sent to Carper, the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) warned Grisham for a tweet found to be in violation the Hatch Act.
The Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their official capacities to endorse or campaign for a candidate seeking office. Several members of the administration, including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, have been cited for past violations.
"Two months after my inquiry, the @US_OSC has confirmed that yet another Trump White House staffer has violated the Hatch Act. This administration's blatant and repeated disregard for the law is astounding and unacceptable," Carper tweeted Thursday. Carper's office had raised the allegations with the special counsel.
"At the very least, we should be able to trust that those who serve in the highest positions in our government will follow the law. Instead, this administration seems to promote a culture where showing that basic level of respect for the American taxpayer is optional," he added.
‘And don’t get me started about Ted Kennedy.’
Love the biased article: he apologized.
A sledgehammer, like his dad.
Democrats ALWAYS ABUSE WOMEN! And Democrat women DON’T CARE!!
Just imagine the difference in reportage there would be if that ‘D’ was an ‘R’.
I LOVE Jr.!!
“Love the biased article: he apologized.”
We all know that apologies don’t unblacken eyes, or un-abuse people.
He did it. He admits he did it. The truth of this is, as always, that he did not do this once. This is what this guy does. He just got caught doing it once.
Somehow he continues to win elections though.
Who in their right mind expects the Socialist Democrats to live by the same standards they demand of everyone else?
I really like Don, Jr. He is a scrapper, like his dad.
Democratic Senator Tom Carper took a brief break from his busy schedule of physically assaulting women to bitch about women in the Trump Administration.
Definite pattern.
#MAGA
One look at the Democrat party of today, and this silly statement becomes a pathetic joke.
Don’t care? Yeah and they vote for them and trash others so they can win. They actually support them, so they can use their poor judgement to harm more people.
Just mortally dumb...
What difference at this point does it make?
Hitlary blackened bj’s eye. Only cause she couldn’t find an ashtray to throw at his head.
"At the very least, we should be able to trust that those who serve in the highest positions in our government will follow the law. Instead, this administration seems to promote a culture where showing that basic level of respect for the American taxpayer is optional," he added.
We should keep this quote to use as more Project Veritas videos, showing deep state employees helping out their preferred liberal/democrat candidate on company time are released.
Democratic Senator Tom Carper took a brief break from his busy schedule of physically assaulting women to bitch about women in the Trump Administration.
Definite pattern.
#MAGA
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BTTT!
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