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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUproar over Trump's Gold Star families remark
Trump caused an uproar Thursday when he suggested in an interview that he might have contracted Covid-19 from Gold Star family members who were too close to him when telling stories of their loved ones who died in the line of duty, POLITICO's Quint Forgey and your Morning D correspondent write.
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Sometimes, Id be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didnt want to cancel that, he said. But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.
Trump explained that as he was being told these stories about fallen service members, I cant say, Back up, stand 10 feet, you know? I just cant do it.
Several top Democratic lawmakers ripped Trump over his comments, saying the president disrespected military families and shifted blame for his administration's shortcomings on the coronavirus.
"Whether he intended it or not, the President has blamed an event with families who lost their loved ones in battle for giving him COVID. That is a shocking statement even for this President," Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. "He must immediately apologize. Failure to do so would be yet another example of his callous disregard and disrespect for the women and men of our Armed Forces who we ask to stand in harms way." - Politico
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Sometimes, Id be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didnt want to cancel that, he said. But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.
Trump explained that as he was being told these stories about fallen service members, I cant say, Back up, stand 10 feet, you know? I just cant do it.
Several top Democratic lawmakers ripped Trump over his comments, saying the president disrespected military families and shifted blame for his administration's shortcomings on the coronavirus.
"Whether he intended it or not, the President has blamed an event with families who lost their loved ones in battle for giving him COVID. That is a shocking statement even for this President," Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement. "He must immediately apologize. Failure to do so would be yet another example of his callous disregard and disrespect for the women and men of our Armed Forces who we ask to stand in harms way." - Politico
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Uproar over Trump's Gold Star families remark (Original Post)
ffr
Oct 2020
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misanthrope
(7,418 posts)1. Even if that were true
Who is to blame for their refusal to recognize distancing protocols and take the disease as seriously as it should be taken? What American governmental leader politicized the disease by downplaying safety protocols? Who made the wearing or rebuke of masks a performative matter?
nykym
(3,063 posts)2. I thought I heard or read the all the Gold Star Families
Tested NEGATIVE before meeting with the Liar in Chief.
Cha
(297,317 posts)3. I should hope so.. That Slimy Fool. On and it was
"INTENDED"!
TY, frr!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)4. He also 4 times said they called him "Sir"
Does anyone think these people would KISS him? Hug him? Ick.