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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I said all that and he didn't say anything," Santa Fe Victim's Mom says. "He was just like, 'Uhhhh'
Santa Fe Victim's Mom Challenged President Trump in Private Meeting for Calling Shooter 'Wacky'...................
He kept calling him [the shooter] this wacky kid who was wearing a wacky trench coat, says Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, was fatally shot along with nine others in the May 18 attack in Galveston County.
At that point, Hart recalls, I raised my hand and said, I have something to say here. Lets just get to the mental health part.
She then explained that her daughter had anxiety, Aspergers syndrome and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and took medicine daily.
I said, [The shooter] might have been depressed, but he wasnt wacky. But if that kid needed help, he needed to have proper access to it, Hart says, meaning you shouldnt repeal the Affordable Care Act [one of Trumps cardinal promises] and get them the help they need and take away the stigma of mental illness.
She says she told Trump, Mental illness needs to be addressed.
I said all that and he didnt say anything, she says. He was just like, Uhhhh'
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https://people.com/crime/donald-trump-meets-santa-fe-shooting-families-mom-confrontation/
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Won't be tolerated by the powers that be.
That's just my two cents.
Marcuse
(7,578 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)At that point they just need to "Toughen up". After the shoot up the joint, then they have a mental illness. They never get labelled "white terrorist" outside of DU.
madashelltoo
(1,709 posts)If the program is not there already, hes lost. Something desperately wrong with him.
erronis
(15,525 posts)And a new module has been installed in cranial cavity A31. We now have redundant comm channels as well as hot-swappable Artificial Fake Intelligence (AFI) units. Kelly-Anne (internal name: Natashia Arkadiabicha) can perform the maneuver in 30 seconds with no noticeable degradation in the output circuits.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)and said, surely, SURELY someone in that gathering will tell us what it was like
Yeah, and it sucked.
Uhhhh sounds exactly what wed expect.
Thank you, Ms. Hart.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)He repeats his go-to lines, deploys his zingers, generalizes inaccurately, blows smoke up asses, and he's off to take a shit and play a round. No debate.
When its a 2-way discussion, and he's challenged, he has 2 responses:
1. insult his opponent like a grade-school bully
2. stammer and look like a dumbass.
He can't use the 1st tactic on a grieving mother.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Sure he can.
And he's already done it.
maxsolomon
(33,475 posts)Once she's out of sight, he can resume his normal 1-way dialogue, and discredit and demean.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is such a useless tub of lard.
SWBTATTReg
(22,297 posts)RUMP can't think on his feet (thinks only w/ his d**k and getting spanked w/ a magazine).
Worthless and incompetent.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,114 posts)calimary
(81,645 posts)Lets not forget that. Have some fun? FUN???? I bet not a single one of those deeply concerned, worried, and into many cases still grieving parents regard a meeting like this as having some fun. Sure wasnt fun - what happened to them, and to their children.
To make light of a prospective meeting with this group is such a freakin INSULT to those people. Theyre not gonna get squat from him, in terms of any actual action - of any significance.
The remedy? VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS!!! If we get enough of them elected to office we can blunt or even cancel the damage hes trying to do - for which the GOP is totally complicit (by doing exactly NOTHING to check his disgusting and destructive behavior). And if we REALLY get enough of them, wed be able to override any veto he issues.
VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS. Its our only hope. Any imaginings about how the GOP will somehow see the light and join us in checking this monster are a waste of time. Waiting for them to change is like waiting for a repeatedly abusive and unrepentant spouse to change. Youll be waiting, in vain, forever.
Collimator
(1,640 posts)I may have even read about it here. It was powerful and poignant.
That second word will never apply to Trump. No moment in his existance could be evocative of the profound, the endearing, the noble, or the beautiful.
Sometime in the future his name will become shorthand for dismal, feckless, (yes, feckless), evil, just as Hitler has become shorthand for chilling, efficient evil.
calimary
(81,645 posts)Hell, theyll never describe trump that way.
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