Sarah Sanders: Trump will lower flags for victims of Capital Gazette shooting

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

President Trump will order American flags lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of a deadly shooting last week at an Annapolis, Md. newspaper, CNN reported.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN that the president made the decision to lower the flags after a received a request to do so from Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley.

The order comes days after a gunman opened fire at the Capital Gazette newsroom last week, killing five people and leaving several others injured. The suspected shooter was arrested and has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

Buckley said that Trump had initially declined his request to lower flags in honor of the victims and their families, the Capital Gazette reported Monday.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/395311-sarah-sanders-trump-will-lower-flags-for-victims-of-capital-gazette

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Just heard on Joe Madison's show.

Someone's lips were moving this morning so lies were being spewed once more.

[heaven05]

1. wow

The lies, obfuscation, complete missteps because of its arrogant white supremacist nature and more lies is just amazing with this current maladministration in D.C. Just amazingly sad.

[DownriverDem]

2. Love Joe

I listen to his show on my way to work. He has a great show. I think trump is so self consumed that he is clueless as to how it looked when he didn't order the flags at half mast. trump is the one that tells his ignorant hating base that the press is the enemy of the people. What a dangerous man trump is. So if he did change his mind, it's only because someone told him that the country disagrees. trump is all about money and being liked.

[trusty elf]

3. Flags should be flown at half mast until this odious administration is gone.

[workinclasszero]

22. Half mast and upside down

Trump and the GOP are destroying this country and western democracy in general by setting up a fascist theocracy on orders of/in cahoots with a foreign dictator.

[PunkinPi]

4. This is shameful...

"the president made the decision to lower the flags after a received a request to do so from Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley."

He can never just do the decent thing.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. But the problem with that statement is that it is a lie

The mayor requested this last Friday and Trump declined it

[PunkinPi]

14. My bad for moving too quickly and missed that part, not surprised though by the lies.

I just find it unbelievable that the mayor had to ask for it to be done in the first place.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I agree!!!

Especially since this was pretty much "local" (to both the U.S. & MD capitals) and covered by the local news down there.

[PunkinPi]

19. :)

[MyOwnPeace]

20. IQ45 doesn't

act according to conscience (seeing as how he does not have one), but rather, according to polling and "what would make him look better."

Of course, making him "look better" is a hopeless cause - he only continues to show how thoroughly inept he is.

What a horse's ass!

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Ain't that the damn truth.

[Fred Sanders]

24. It is a purposeful pattern. Send a message to the cult by "hesitating" to do

the obvious right thing, even regarding "the enemy of the people, and then do it.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...forced to do the right thing from apologizing for birtherism, to this, and much in between.

[PunkinPi]

29. Sadly true. nt

[Jedi Guy]

5. Will he, Sarah? Really? Pinky swear?

See, we only ask because we've already heard from the mayor of Annapolis, who said that your boss told him no. I wouldn't trust your boss for the time if he had a clock stuck to his face. Wouldn't trust you or anyone else who carries water for him either, for that matter. Why would your boss approve a gesture of respect and mourning for those he called "the enemies of the American People"?

No one's buying what you're selling, Sarah. If he does approve this request, it's only because he doesn't want to look bad, not because he cares.

[Javaman]

6. someone slapped the hand of the petulant child

the issue with this fucking orange asshole president is; he probably looks at lowering the flag for these poor people that were killed as "losing".

that is some serious psychosis.

[pazzyanne]

7. Wow, and it only took tRump almost a week to do the respectful thing!

...and we know he did it without extreme pressure being applied.

[Snellius]

8. Another my-bad moment in the clueless life of the fuck-up in chief

Let's hope his next oops is not launching a nuclear attack

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

9. Where does he find these surrogate moms who are willing to follow along behind him cleaning up his

messes.

[Bengus81]

10. Who PRESSURED Trump into now deciding to do this?? He denied the request before.......

[still_one]

11. f**K him. That he initially rejected it is all you need to know. This is not done out of any

respect or to memorialize the victims, it is his clean up crew trying to present a PR image, which is irrevocably non-existent

[IronLionZion]

13. Will he host an event for the victims of white guys with guns?

or were those events only to demonize immigrants?

[Fred Sanders]

25. The latter. Any gun control folks in the WH would confuse his cult...stick

with the NRA demons...allies are allies.

[truthisfreedom]

16. We need to keep a running total of all of the times he's been shamed

into doing the right thing. He just can’t get it right the first time.

[MyOwnPeace]

21. It's busy enough......

just keeping track of his lies!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. He wasn't shamed. He doesn't do shame. What happened was

that someone at the WH pointed out to him that refusing the mayor's request to lower the flag was getting a lot of backlash and for the sake of PR he should do it. Shame has never entered into any of his decisions.

[meadowlander]

35. He knew he would score points with his base by not doing it,

and would be able to backpedal and pretend it was a "misunderstanding" with everyone else.

[logosoco]

17. The methods trump and his staff uses are transparent and horrid.

He doesn't do the nice, right thing without being told, then he does it and expects others to see him as someone doing the right thing. I guess his followers can't see this. Just like they believe him when he says "fake news" even though there is proof it is NOT fake and he never has proof how it is fake.

[George II]

18. A shame this reached the point it did.

[EricMaundry]

23. Trumpie heel clickers must be getting whiplash

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

26. Sarah makes it sound like cause-and-effect, when actually it was

cause --fuck you fake news -- blowback -- effect.

She conveniently left out the part where her boss denied the initial request.

[appleannie1943]

28. He got shamed into it. If he had had his own way, he would not have even acknowledged

the fact that it occurred and he had no intention of doing anything.

[SFnomad]

31. And tRump will probably be furious the entire time the flags are flown at half-staff n/t

[riversedge]

32. Corrupt Trump caves again. Wonder who or what pressured him??

[lunasun]

33. Now ?? 5/6 days later ???? Ok yeah well it comes with a proclamation

In deciding to lower the flags, the White House in a proclamation said the nation shared in the sorrows of those affected by the shooting.

"Americans across the country are united in calling upon God to be with the victims and to bring aid and comfort to their families and friends," the proclamation reads.

"As a mark of solemn respect for the victims of the terrible act of violence perpetrated on June 28, 2018, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, July 3, 2018."

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Thanks for that update.

Sounds like it was partially written by SHS (or her father).

[Hoyt]

36. Glad to see the orange buffoon doing something decent, after being criticized for being an ass.

It happens, even happened to a really decent President Obama a few times too.

Now if trump would just do more decent things without having to be criticized, forced into it -- howsabout some healthcare for all, increases in minimum wage, immigration, etc.