Elise Jordan choked back tears today on MSNBC (I think it was Morning Joe)

[CTyankee]

on the treatment of Mrs. Johnson by the White House. She was very upset about the treatment Trump gave the grieving widow.

Jordan, I discovered through Google, lost her husband to a car accident a few years ago. She is a Republican spokesperson but she spoke vehemently against the Trump White House's handling of this tragedy.

That poor woman. How this whole affair has been handled is being felt so deeply by women and men in the press. Although I haven't seen a male spokesperson break down, I have no doubt that many of them shed private tears.

Trump is sickening...

[lunasun]

1. No answers either for her

GS: What did they tell you? MJ: They told me that he’s in a severe, a severe wrap like I won’t be able to see him. I need to see him so I will know that that is my husband. I don't know nothing they won’t show me a finger, a hand. I know my husband’s body from head to toe. And they won’t let me see anything. I don’t know what’s in that box, it could be empty for all I know. But I need, I need to see my husband. I haven’t seen him since he came home.

GS: And what have they told you about what happened in Africa? MJ: I really don’t know the answers to that one neither because when they came to my house they just told me that, um, it was a massive gunfire and my husband as of October 4th was missing, they didn't his whereabouts. They didn't know where he was or where to find him and a couple days later is when they told me that he went from missing to killed in action. I don’t know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything. I don’t know that part they never told me and that’s what I’ve been trying to find out since day one, since October 4th.

[CTyankee]

2. Beyond cruelty.

The suffering just keeps going on.

[mopinko]

4. i keep thinking of mamie till.

they told her the same thing. she told them to fuck off, and broken the padlock off the box that held her son's body. she went over every inch of it w her hands.
when they told her she couldnt have an open casket funeral, she told them to fuck off.

i wish this widow had done the same, tho i appreciate the rare courage that it took for mamie to do thiss.

[JoeOtterbein]

8. I keep thinking about her and how the reason to lock the casket, torture, may be the same here.

[mopinko]

16. no way i would have buried him w/o an independent autopsy.

all this smells just too fishy for me.

[uponit7771]

3. Mrs Johnson's skin is brown, its expected that Ku Klux Ken would treat them horribly he's a bastard

[octoberlib]

5. Jordans husband was journalist Michael

Hastings.

[RandomAccess]

6. And quite a car accident it was

Anyone not offended by the mere thought of "conspiracy theory" should look up the details of Michael Hastings' death. He had told people in the days ahead of that crash that he was afraid for his life, and the circumstances were curious.

[UCmeNdc]

7. This is not good for the military. It will hurt morale eventually.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Yep. Who in their right mind would want Trump as a CIC. . .

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. . .after this shit?

Hopefully, they're now asking themselves: will he and his subordinates do right by my family if (G*d forbid) I get killed?

If the answer is NO, they should say: Fuck Them. Fuck Them All.

[caballojm]

10. Now watch the right-wing media drag Mrs. Johnson and her family through the mud

just to protect their incompetent Racist-in-Chief.

[Corgigal]

11. She lost the love of her life

Baby warriors don't really matter when your whole life has changed.

[samnsara]

12. hes a psychic vampire

[Amimnoch]

13. He's a "boil on the butt of humanity."

To use one of my all time favorite quotations:

[Gothmog]

15. LOL

[Gothmog]

14. Trump is an asshole who hates the military

[Hekate]

17. He's a tinpot dictator wannabe who loves "his" generals & would dress up as a Generalissimo...

...if he could get away with it. The lower ranks don't even register in his brain except as extras in the movie that plays in his head. He doesn't "hate" them -- he just doesn't see them any more than he sees the bellboys in his hotels.

jmho