Trump meets with families affected by Texas shooting
Source: AP
HOUSTON (AP) Seeking to comfort grieving families and shaken survivors, President Donald Trump spent more than an hour privately Thursday with some of those impacted by a Texas mass school shooting that killed 10 and wounded more than a dozen on May 18.
The latest spasm of violence in a year marred by assaults on the nations schools, the shooting at Santa Fe High School was the latest to test the presidents role as national comforter-in-chief. Trump met with more than two dozen people affected by the shooting, and did not publicly share his message for the grieving families and local leaders during a meeting at a Coast Guard base outside Houston.
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Rhonda Hart, whose 14-year-old daughter, Kimberly Vaughan, was killed at the school, told The Associated Press that Trump repeatedly used the word wacky to describe the shooter and the trench coat he wore. She said she told Trump, Maybe if everyone had access to mental health care, we wouldnt be in the situation.
Hart, an Army veteran, said she also suggested employing veterans as sentinels in schools. She said Trump responded, And arm them? She replied, No, but said Trump kept mentioning arming classroom teachers. It was like talking to a toddler, Hart said.
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turbinetree
(24,703 posts)riversedge
(70,233 posts)and argue we must. Too bad the Republicans are silent and allow the toddler to poop all over everything that is good. damn
....Hart, an Army veteran, said she also suggested employing veterans as sentinels in schools. She said Trump responded, And arm them? She replied, No, but said Trump kept mentioning arming classroom teachers. It was like talking to a toddler, Hart said.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
tanyev
(42,559 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Bless you, Rhonda Hart.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)They wouldn't even begin to want to cover the disaster and zillion $$$ lawsuits that could come from just one accidental shooting. So...Federal Government going to foot the insurance bill all at taxpayer expense??
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Spread it far and wide...
BASTA
TODDLER
relogic
(155 posts)14 yo in contrast to a subhuman who never reached toddler status. My correction.
The child man is in the negative realm of prebirth brain, intelligence development. There are fetuses putting together multisyllabic words hes never heard of.
He will will give aid and cover to every argument to incite more gun violence and further promote their sale, flooding us with more of the same.
Gothmog
(145,265 posts)dalton99a
(81,512 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)dhill926
(16,339 posts)unfortunately when he throws a tantrum...many people are hurt, not just toys broken.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I don't even know why you could imagine he could help you with your grief, ....
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MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)"Trump ahead of visit with Texas shooting survivors: 'We are going to have a little fun'"
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390099-trump-ahead-of-visit-with-texas-shooting-survivors-we-are-going
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)"I am listening".
Gothmog
(145,265 posts)Bayard
(22,075 posts)He spent that hour talking about himself, rather than listening and grieving with these folks.
Did he also throw paper towels at them?